Ning Kang
Ning Kang
Assistant Professor
Ning Kang

I am an Assistant Professor in the NetVerify Lab at Xi’an Jiaotong University. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University under the supervision of Prof. Peng Zhang. My research focuses on advancing formal methods from scalable and practical perspectives. I design data structures to accelerate multi-round and incremental SMT solving, which have been successfully applied to access control policy analysis (AccessRefinery, FSE 2026). I also study how to efficiently encode network configurations as SMT constraints, thereby accelerating network verification (VeriBoost, FM 2026). In addition, I work on mining network specifications to help operators automatically generate verification targets (NetMiner, ICNP 2023; NetMiner, TON 2025). Outside of research, I enjoy playing badminton and swimming, as well as discussing academic topics with others.

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
Time:
2018.9 - 2018.12
Publications
Ning Kang Peng Zhang Jianyuan Zhang Hao Li Dan Wang Zhenrong Gu
Weibo Lin
Shibiao Jiang
Zhu He
Xu Du
Longfei Chen
Jun Li
, and 
Xiaohong Guan
Proceedings of ACM FSE '26
Ning Kang Peng Zhang
Hao Li
Sisi Wen
Chaoyang Ji
, and 
Yongqiang Yang
IEEE Transactions on Networking 2025
Ning Kang Peng Zhang Hao Li
Sisi Wen
Chaoyang Ji
, and 
Yongqiang Yang
Proceedings of IEEE ICNP '23
Peng Zhang Xu Liu
Hongkun Yang
Ning Kang
Zhengchang Gu
, and  Hao Li
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI '20
Award
The 2016 International Collegial Programming Contest (ICPC)
Bronze Medal, Asia Shang'hai Regional Contest
Outstanding Graduate Student, 2019
National Scholarship, 2015-2017