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Yang Luo, male, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor (Assistant Researcher) at the National Engineering Research Center for Software Engineering, Peking University; Master's Supervisor. Jointly appointed faculty member of the Department of Network Software and System Security, School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University; Head of the AI Cloud Operating System Research Group at the Peking University–Daxing Economic Development Zone Joint Laboratory; Senior Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF); currently serving as Executive Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Embedded Systems and of the CCF Technical Committee on Open Source Development; Lead of the Apache Casbin open source community.

  • His research focuses on key technologies for software and system security. He has published more than 30 academic papers, including 20 as first or corresponding author, among them dozens of CCF Class A/B papers published in top international journals and conferences such as TDSC, TIFS, ASE, and IJCAI. He holds 8 granted invention patents (including 1 U.S. patent) and has co-authored two national standards (National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee).
  • He proposed Casbin, a unified access control framework based on a meta-model, released as open source on GitHub with more than 33,000 stars — ranking first worldwide in star count among comparable open source projects. It was selected for the 2021 Open Source Innovation List of the China Association for Science and Technology's "Kechuang China" program (covered by CCTV-2, receiving the award alongside Huawei HarmonyOS), and was included by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the white paper NIST.SP.800-204B, "Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh."

Main Research Areas

1. Cloud computing and cloud-native security; 2. Access control and zero-trust security; 3. AI large models and agent security; 4. Software engineering

Research Projects

  1. Ministry of Education China University Industry-Academia-Research Innovation Fund, "Research on Key Technologies for Industry Applications of Secure Large Models with Multi-Agent Collaboration" (2025SZ011), Principal Investigator, 2026–2027
  2. National Key R&D Program of China, "Blockchain-based Trusted Sharing of Health and Medical Data and Demonstration Applications" (2022YFB2703300), Core Member, 2022–2025
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, "Research on Key Technologies for Building a Highly Trustworthy Cloud Operating System" (61672062), Core Member, 2017–2020
  4. National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program), "Trusted Services for Cloud Security and Demonstration Validation in Education Cloud" (2015AA016009), Core Member, 2015–2018

Teaching

Advanced System Software Technology (Semester 2, 48 class hours, required course for the Critical Software track)

Awards and Honors

  1. 2025 Beijing Municipal Teaching Achievement Award – First Prize (4/6)
  2. 2025 Open Source Innovation Award, "Kechuang China" program, China Association for Science and Technology
  3. 2024 Chinese Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Award – First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (4/13)
  4. 2024 "China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition" (guided by the Cyberspace Administration of China, hosted by the China Internet Development Foundation) – First Prize
  5. 2021 Open Source Innovation Award, "Kechuang China" program, China Association for Science and Technology
  6. 2019 Google Open Source Peer Bonus, USA (115 recipients worldwide, 3 of Chinese origin)
  7. 2025 Shanghai Open Source Innovation Elite Awards: "Outstanding Open Source Project" and "Outstanding Open Source Community Contributor"
  8. 2023 China Academy of Information and Communications Technology: "OSCAR Pinnacle Open Source Figure" and "OSCAR Pinnacle Open Source Project"
  9. 2023 OpenAtom Foundation: "Vibrant Open Source Contributor" and "Fast-Growing Open Source Project"
  10. 2023 China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Supervisor Award
  11. 2021 China Open Source Cloud League "Outstanding Open Source Contributor of China" (6 recipients)

Professional Service

  1. Executive Committee Member, Technical Committee on Embedded Systems, China Computer Federation (CCF)
  2. Executive Committee Member, Technical Committee on Open Source Development, China Computer Federation (CCF)
  3. Reviewer for journals and conferences including TSE, ACM MM, ICML, IJCAI, Computer Networks, and Chinese Journal of Computers; Program Committee (PC) member for AAAI 2027, ACM MM 2026, IJCAI 2026, and others
  4. Community organizer and mentor for Google's "Google Summer of Code" programming program, 2020–2022, mentoring a total of 22 international students
  5. Community organizer and mentor for the "Open Source Promotion Plan – Summer of Open Source (OSPP)" program of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020–2025, mentoring a total of 39 students
  6. Community organizer and mentor for the China Computer Federation (CCF) "GitLink Code Camp (GLCC)" program, 2023–2025, mentoring a total of 11 students

Contact

  1. Email: luoyang <AT> pku.edu.cn
  2. Main campus lab: Room 812, Yanyuan Building, Peking University; Daxing office: Room 2216, Teaching Building