Haoyi Zeng
Hey! I’m a PhD student in computer science at Harvard University, Cambridge. I work on program logics and formal verification, and I’m currently interning at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.
📬 haoyizeng@g.harvard.edu
Research Papers (* equal contribution)
Post’s Problem in Constructive Mathematics
Haoyi Zeng, Yannick Forster, Dominik Kirst, Takako Nemoto
draft
Haoyi Zeng, Yannick Forster, Dominik Kirst, Takako Nemoto
draft
A Deductive System for Contract Satisfaction Proofs
Arthur Correnson, Haoyi Zeng, Jana Hofmann
pldi 2026
Arthur Correnson, Haoyi Zeng, Jana Hofmann
pldi 2026
The Blurred Drinker Paradox
Dominik Kirst*, Haoyi Zeng*
lics 2025 ⭐ distinguished paper award
lmcs invited journal version
Dominik Kirst*, Haoyi Zeng*
lics 2025 ⭐ distinguished paper award
lmcs invited journal version
Destabilizing Iris
Simon Spies, Niklas Mück, Haoyi Zeng, Michael Sammler, Andrea Lattuada, Peter Müller, Derek Dreyer
pldi 2025 ⭐ distinguished paper award
Simon Spies, Niklas Mück, Haoyi Zeng, Michael Sammler, Andrea Lattuada, Peter Müller, Derek Dreyer
pldi 2025 ⭐ distinguished paper award
Workshop Papers (selected)
Kawa: An Abstract Language for Scalable and Variable Detection of Spectre Vulnerabilities
Zheyuan Wu, Haoyi Zeng, Aaron Bies
src splash 2024 🥉 bronze medal
Zheyuan Wu, Haoyi Zeng, Aaron Bies
src splash 2024 🥉 bronze medal
Achievements
- Distinguished Paper Award: PLDI 2025, LICS 2025
- Bronze Medal (Undergraduate Category): SRC SPLASH 2024
- Summer@EPFL Fellowship
- German National Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium)
- Bachelor’s Honors Program
Thesis
- Bachelor’s Thesis: Post’s Problem and the Priority Method in Synthetic Computability
Teaching
I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses at Saarland University:
- Introduction to Computational Logic (2025)
- Introduction to Computational Logic (2023)
- Programming 2 (2023)
- Programming 2 Pre-Course (2023)
Service
- PLDI 2026 Artifact Evaluation Committee
Events
- LICS 2025
- PLDI 2025
- SuRI@EPFL 2025
- PLISS 2025
- SPLASH 2024
- TYPES 2024
- Iris Workshop 2023/2024/2025
- Proof and Computation 2023
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