Chenxi Huang

Meta-engineering over system software

500 West 120 St, 406 Mudd
New York, NY 10027

Email:
chenxi [at] cs.columbia.edu

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Hi there! 👋 I'm a first-year PhD student at Columbia CS. My research interests include broad spectrum of system software. Please email me or say hi on LinkedIn if you want a chat!

Publications

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KGym: A Platform and Dataset to Benchmark Large Language Models on Linux Kernel Crash Resolution Alex Mathai, Chenxi Huang, Petros Maniatis, Aleksandr Nogikh, Franjo Ivancic, Junfeng Yang, Baishakhi Ray (NeurIPS 2024) [arXiv][code]

Education

PhD student in Computer Science @ Columbia University (Aug 2025 - Present) Bachelor of Science in Computer Science @ University of Minnesota (Jan 2023 - May 2025) Transferred out from Nanchang University (Sept 2021 - Dec 2022) The High School Affiliated to Jiangxi Normal University (Sept 2018 - Jun 2021)

Experiences

Research Assistant, Columbia University (Sept 2023 - Present) Advised by Professor Junfeng Yang and Baishakhi Ray, working with Alex Mathai Investigating Linux bugs from syzbot and explore LLM's potential in understanding them

SWE Intern, Apple Inc. (May 2024 - Aug 2024) Team Hardware Accelerated Networking Integrated a custom offload protocol to accelerate Apple hardware in Thunderbolt network by 30%

Research Assistant, University of Minnesota (May 2023 - Aug 2023) Advised by Professor Antonia Zhai Constructing covert-channel bypassing OS isolation at micro-architecture level

Competitive Programming Contestant (Jul 2018 - May 2023) I wrote 400+ problem solutions and tutorial articles in my blog (in Chinese).

Updated on Sep 20, 2025