Joshua Gancher
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University
Office: WVH 332
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.
Vest: Verified, Secure, High-Performance Parsing and Serialization for Rust.
USENIX Security 2025.
Yi Cai, Pratap Singh, Zhengyao Lin, Jay Bosamiya, Joshua Gancher, Milijana Surbatovich, and Bryan Parno.
Verdict: High-Assurance Distributed Systems via Mechanized Proof and Secure Compilation.
USENIX Security 2025.
Zhengyao Lin,
Michael McLoughlin,
Pratap Singh,
Rory Brennan-Jones,
Paul Hitchcox,
Joshua Gancher, and
Bryan Parno.
OwlC: Compiling Security Protocols to Verified, Secure, High-Performance Libraries.
USENIX Security 2025.
Pratap Singh, Joshua Gancher, and Bryan Parno.
FlowCert: Translation Validation for Asynchronous Dataflow via Dynamic Fractional Permissions.
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.
POPL 2023.
Joshua Gancher, Kristina Sojakova, Xiong Fan, Elaine Shi, and
Greg Morrisett. Project link
here.
PLDI 2021.
Coşku Acay, Rolph Recto, Joshua Gancher, Andrew Myers,
and Elaine Shi. Project link
here.
.
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.
