Yanyan Jiang 蒋炎岩 
(Tenure-track) Associate Professor,
SPAR 
- CASTLE 
Joint Group,
School of Computer Science and Technology,
Nanjing University.
Room 0b1111111111, CST Building,
Nanjing University Xianlin Campus.
Research
I'm interested in fun stuffs on constructing and torturing software systems: validation, verification, and synthesis. Selected publications:
- Yanyan Jiang, “The hitchhiker's guide to operating systems”, in Proceedings of the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 929–943, 2023.
- Hanzhi Liu, Yanyan Jiang, and Chang Xu, “Understanding the Linux kernel, visually”, Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 1044–1060, 2025 (Best Student Paper 🏅).
- Cong Li, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, and Zhendong Su, “Validating JIT compilers via compilation space exploration”, in Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 66–79, 2023 (Best Paper 🏅).
- And the full publication list.
Teaching
Students
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Current (劝退信)
- PhD:
欧先飞 (2018),
刘瀚之 (2020),
周意可 (2021),
王加益 (2021),
高培立 (2023),
赵超懿 (2023),
曹云帆 (2024),
谭森琪 (2024)
- Master:
刘泽森 (2023),
臧子健 (2024)
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Past students
Services
- Program Committee Member: EuroSys'25,
ASE'23,
ASE'21, SANER'23, SANER'22, Internetware, ChinaSoft, ChinaSys.
Steering Committee Member of Jiangsu Olympiad in Informatics; Technical Committee Member of APIO'22—24.
Honors and Awards
- 2024 ACM China Rising Star Award (Top 2 in China) and ACM ChinaSys Rising Star Award.
- 2024 The Teacher Award Program for Computer Science in Chinese Universities (高校计算机专业优秀教师奖励计划).
- 2024 The Favorite Teacher at Nanjing University (我最喜爱的老师, Nominated by Students).
- 2023 Best Paper Award of the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23).
- 2022 Xiaomi Youth Innovation Award (小米青年学者科技创新奖).
- 2021 NASAC Youth Software Innovation Award (NASAC 青年软件创新奖).
- 2021 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and ACM European Best Paper Award (ICSE'21).
- 2018-2020 CCF Elite Youth Scientists Sponsorship Program (CCF 青年人才托举计划; Top 6 in China).
- 2018 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ASE'18).
- 2018 CCF Docotral Disseration Award (Top 5 in China), ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination (Top 5 in China).
- 2016 Distinguished Student of Nanjing University (南京大学学生年度人物; the only PhD student out of ten winners).
- 2014 MSRA Fellowship Award (微软学者奖学金; Top 12 in Asia Region); 2015 and 2010 National Scholarship;
- First Place in 2014 Huawei Cup Regional Programming Contest; Second Place in 2012 Tencent Hackathon.
- I competed in ICPC regional contests for two Gold Medals and earned 49th Place in the 2009 World Finals.
Last Update: Apr 21, 2025
Yanyan's Wiki and “The Green Advisor”
and plagiarism detection (Needle 
(with Zihao Yu 余子濠) in which undergraduate students build a complete computer system (SoC, full-system emulator, operating system, etc.) from scratch.