Sen Yang 🧐
Sen Yang

PhD Candidate in Computer Science

Yale University

About Me

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Fan Zhang. Previously, I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Fudan University.

My research focuses on understanding and evaluating the mechanisms used in Decentralized Finance, particularly those related to Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), and improving them through the design of secure and incentive-compatible decentralized systems. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work or in collaborating with me!

Publications

Published Papers

  • RediSwap: MEV Redistribution Mechanism for CFMMs. Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang. In DeFi'25.
  • AGORA: Open More and Trust Less in Binary Verification Service. Hongbo Chen, Quan Zhou, Sen Yang, Xing Han, Fan Zhang, Danfeng Zhang, XiaoFeng Wang. In OOPSLA'25.
  • Decentralization of Ethereum’s Builder Market. Sen Yang, Kartik Nayak, Fan Zhang. In IEEE S&P'25.
  • SoK: MEV Countermeasures. Sen Yang, Fan Zhang, Ken Huang, Xi Chen, Youwei Yang, Feng Zhu. In DeFi'24.
  • MISO: Legacy-compatible Privacy-preserving Single Sign-on using Trusted Execution Environments. Rongwu Xu, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang, Zhixuan Fang. In EuroS&P'23.
  • Analyzing Ground-Truth Data of Mobile Gambling Scams. Geng Hong, Zhemin Yang, Sen Yang, Xiaojing Liao, Xiaolin Du, Min Yang, Haixin Duan. In IEEE S&P'22.
  • Coverage-Guided Tensor Compiler Fuzzing with Joint IR-Pass Mutation. Jiawei Liu, Yuxiang Wei, Sen Yang, Yinlin Deng, Lingming Zhang. In OOPSLA'22.
  • App in the Middle: Demystify Application Virtualization in Android and its Security Threats. Lei Zhang, Zhemin Yang, Yuyu He, Mingqi Li, Sen Yang, Min Yang, Yuan Zhang, Zhiyun Qian. In SIGMETRICS'19.
  • How You Get Shot in the Back: A Systematical Study about Cryptojacking in the Real World. Geng Hong, Zhemin Yang, Sen Yang, Lei Zhang, Yuhong Nan, Zhibo Zhang, Min Yang, Yuan Zhang, Zhiyun Qian, Haixin Duan. In ACM CCS'18.

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, 2025 Spring, Full Stack Web Programming, Yale University
  • Teaching Assistant, 2024 Fall, Computer System Security, Yale University
  • Teaching Assistant, 2022 Spring, Compilers, Fudan University
  • Teaching Assistant, 2021 Fall, Computer Network, Fudan University
  • Teaching Assistant, 2018 Spring, Web Fundamentals, Fudan University