Joshua Gancher
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University
Office: WVH 360
I apply tools from Formal Methods and Programming Languages to construct and
certify secure systems -- particularly systems that use cryptography.
Broadly, I am interested in applied cryptography, distributed systems, type
systems, proof assistants, and compiler correctness.
As of Fall 2024: I am currently recruiting students at Northeastern
to work with me!
Please reach out / apply to Northeastern if
you are interested.
WaveCert: Formal Compiler Validation for Asynchronous Dataflow
Programs.
OOPSLA 2024.
Zhengyao Lin, Joshua Gancher, and Bryan Parno.
Secure Synthesis of Distributed Cryptographic Applications.
CSF 2024.
Coşku Acay, Josua Gancher, Rolph Recto, and Andrew Myers.
Owl:
Compositional Verification of Security Protocols via an
Information-Flow Type System.
IEEE S&P 2023.
Joshua Gancher, Sydney Gibson, Pratap Singh, Samvid
Dharanikota, and Bryan Parno. Project link
here.
A Core Calculus for Equational Proofs of Cryptographic
Protocols.
POPL 2023.
Joshua Gancher, Kristina Sojakova, Xiong Fan, Elaine Shi, and
Greg Morrisett. Project link
here.
Viaduct: An Extensible, Optimizing Compiler for Secure
Distributed Programs.
PLDI 2021.
Coşku Acay, Rolph Recto, Joshua Gancher, Andrew Myers,
and Elaine Shi. Project link
here.
Symbolic Proofs for Lattice-Based Cryptography.
CCS 2018.
Gilles Barthe, Xiong Fan, Joshua Gancher, Benjamin Grégoire, Charlie Jacomme and Elaine Shi.
Externally Verifiable Oblivious RAM.
PETS 2017.
Joshua Gancher, Adam Groce, and Alex
Ledger.