Chenxi Huang
Research Assistant at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChenxi Huang is a systems-focused researcher and software engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance and security-sensitive software. Currently a PhD student and Research Assistant at Columbia CS, Chenxi has delivered kernel- and user-space networking innovations—most notably a zero-copy CSO protocol implementation at Apple that boosted throughput by 30% using DPDK and macOS internals. Their background includes hands-on security research into cache side channels and PoC exploits in C and x86 assembly, showing a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and offensive thinking. Comfortable moving between research and production, Chenxi excels at designing well-structured, performant solutions that bridge academia and industry. Based in New York, they combine engineering rigor with a taste for elegant system design.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Engineering (transfer out) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (transfer out) Computer Science at Nanchang UniversityThe Attached Middle School To Jiangxi Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (17)
testing9
security9
linux9
fuzzer9
kernel9
security-vulnerability9
fuzzing8
autoencoder8
denoising7
generative-adversarial-network7
risc-v7
fuzz-testing7
xv67
image-manipulation6
attention-mechanism5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kaloronahuang/kalorona-kernel
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
kaloronahuang/syzkaller
May 2024 - May 2026
syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
Contributions:51 pushes, 11 branches, 4 tags in 1 year 11 months
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