I am a Ph.D. student in the NetVerify Lab at Xi’an Jiaotong University, advised by Prof. Peng Zhang. My research focuses on advancing formal methods from scalable and practical perspectives. I design a data structure to accelerate multi-round and incremental SMT solving, which has been successfully applied to access control policy analysis (AccessRefinery, FSE 2026). Moreover, I study how to efficiently encode network configurations as SMT constraints, thereby accelerating network verification (VeriBoost, FM 2026, under review). Besides, I also work on mining network specifications to help operators automatically write verification targets (NetMiner, ICNP 2023; NetMiner, TON 2025). Outside of research, I enjoy playing badminton and swimming, and I enjoy discussing academic topics with others. I am in the job market (Spring 2025); feel free to contact me!
Research Interest
Formal Methods
Network Verification
Network Specification Mining
Access Control Policy Analysis
Education Experience
Xi'an Jiaotong University
School of Computer Science and Technology
Ph.D Degree, 2019.9 - now
Chang'an University
School of Computer Science and Technology
Bachelor Degree, 2015.9 - 2019.6
Rank:
2 / 31
GPA:
3.56/4.0
Internship
Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
Accelerating multi-round SMT solving for access control policy analysis
Time:
2024.9 - 2025.6
Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
Mining network specifications as targets for network verification
Time:
2022.9 - 2023.6
Newegg.
TBuilding a team collaboration bot (Hubot) to automate team workflows