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44
Citations
5018
World Ranking
7721
National Ranking
3331

Overview

Zhong Shao is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science. Their research encompasses diverse subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, computational theory and mathematics, and software development.

Their work frequently addresses main topics such as distributed systems and fault tolerance, logic, programming and type systems, security and verification in computing, parallel computing and optimization techniques, formal methods in verification, real-time systems scheduling, and embedded systems design techniques.

Shao has published numerous papers in prominent venues, with a notable emphasis on the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, where they have contributed thirteen papers. Other publication venues include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Systems Architecture, Journal of the ACM, and Artifact Digital Object Group.

Recent publications by Shao include the following:

  • Fully Composable and Adequate Verified Compilation with Direct Refinements between Open Modules, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Layered and object-based game semantics, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Verified compilation of C programs with a nominal memory model, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Much ADO about failures: a fault-aware model for compositional verification of strongly consistent distributed systems, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • CompCertELF: verified separate compilation of C programs into ELF object files, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

The scientist has worked alongside various co-authors throughout their career, including Jérémie Koenig, Jieung Kim, Yuting Wang, Ji-Yong Shin, and Arthur Oliveira Vale.

Best Publications

  • Deep Specifications and Certified Abstraction Layers

    Ronghui Gu;Jérémie Koenig;Tahina Ramananandro;Zhong Shao

  • CertiKOS: an extensible architecture for building certified concurrent OS kernels

    Ronghui Gu;Zhong Shao;Hao Chen;Xiongnan Wu

  • On the relationship between concurrent separation logic and assume-guarantee reasoning

    Xinyu Feng;Rodrigo Ferreira;Zhong Shao

  • A type-based compiler for standard ML

    Zhong Shao;Andrew W. Appel

  • Certified assembly programming with embedded code pointers

    Zhaozhong Ni;Zhong Shao

  • Space-efficient closure representations

    Zhong Shao;Andrew W. Appel

  • Certified self-modifying code

    Hongxu Cai;Zhong Shao;Alexander Vaynberg

  • Compositional certified resource bounds

    Quentin Carbonneaux;Jan Hoffmann;Zhong Shao

  • Modular verification of assembly code with stack-based control abstractions

    Xinyu Feng;Zhong Shao;Alexander Vaynberg;Sen Xiang

  • Building certified libraries for PCC: dynamic storage allocation

    Dachuan Yu;Nadeem A. Hamid;Zhong Shao

  • Smartest recompilation

    Zhong Shao;Andrew W. Appel

  • Certifying low-level programs with hardware interrupts and preemptive threads

    Xinyu Feng;Zhong Shao;Yuan Dong;Yu Guo

  • Flexible representation analysis

    Zhong Shao

  • Implementing typed intermediate languages

    Zhong Shao;Christopher League;Stefan Monnier

  • A syntactic approach to foundational proof-carrying code

    N.A. Hamid;Zhong Shao;V. Trifonov;S. Monnier

  • A Syntactic Approach to Foundational Proof-Carrying Code

    Nadeem A. Hamid;Zhong Shao;Valery Trifonov;Stefan Monnier

  • A general framework for certifying garbage collectors and their mutators

    Andrew McCreight;Zhong Shao;Chunxiao Lin;Long Li

  • A type system for certified binaries

    Zhong Shao;Bratin Saha;Valery Trifonov;Nikolaos Papaspyrou

  • Empirical and analytic study of stack versus heap cost for languages with closures

    Andrew Wilson Appel;Zhong Shao;Zhong Shao

  • Using XCAP to certify realistic systems code: machine context management

    Zhaozhong Ni;Dachuan Yu;Zhong Shao

  • Certified concurrent abstraction layers

    Ronghui Gu;Zhong Shao;Jieung Kim;Xiongnan (Newman) Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Appel
Andrew W. Appel Princeton University
Gang Tan
Gang Tan Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin C. Pierce
Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania
Bratin Saha
Bratin Saha Amazon (United States)
David Walker
David Walker Princeton University
Lars Birkedal
Lars Birkedal Aarhus University
Peter Lee
Peter Lee Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Kazanzides
Peter Kazanzides Johns Hopkins University
Steve Zdancewic
Steve Zdancewic University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Reps
Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin–Madison

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