About Me

I am a third-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 identifying real-world security issues in blockchains systems, particularly those caused by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), and addressing them through the design of secure and incentive-compatible decentralized systems. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work or collaborating with me!

Publications

Manuscripts

• Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts. Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang.
  • arXiv
• RediSwap: MEV Redistribution Mechanism for CFMMs. Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang.
  • arXiv
• AGORA: Open More and Trust Less in Binary Verification Service. Hongbo Chen, Quan Zhou, Sen Yang, Xing Han, Fan Zhang, Danfeng Zhang, XiaoFeng Wang.
  • arXiv, poster

Published Papers

• Decentralization of Ethereum’s Builder Market. Sen Yang, Kartik Nayak, Fan Zhang. In IEEE S&P'25.
  • arXiv, blog post, code & dataset
• SoK: MEV Countermeasures. Sen Yang, Fan Zhang, Ken Huang, Xi Chen, Youwei Yang, Feng Zhu. In DeFi'24.
  • full version on arXiv, ACM DL
• MISO: Legacy-compatible Privacy-preserving Single Sign-on using Trusted Execution Environments. Rongwu Xu, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang, Zhixuan Fang. In EuroS&P'23.
  • arXiv, IEEE Xplore
• 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.
  • IEEE Xplore
• Coverage-Guided Tensor Compiler Fuzzing with Joint IR-Pass Mutation. Jiawei Liu, Yuxiang Wei, Sen Yang, Yinlin Deng, Lingming Zhang. In OOPSLA'22.
  • ACM DL, code
• 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.
  • ACM DL
• 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.
  • ACM DL, code

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, 2025 Spring, 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

Services

• Sub-Reviewer
  • IEEE ICDCS 2025
  • USENIX Security 2024/25
  • AFT 2023/24
  • ACM CCS 2018/22
  • AsiaCCS 2020