Ronghui Gu is the Tang Family Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His thesis work on building certified OS kernels received the Yale Doctoral Dissertation Award and was nominated for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is the primary designer and developer of CertiKOS, the first verified concurrent OS kernel, and SeKVM, the first verified commodity cloud hypervisor--major milestones toward building safe and secure systems software. Gu co-founded CertiK, a Web3 cybersecurity unicorn startup valued at $2 billion. CertiK has collectively served over 3,200 enterprise clients and secured more than $300 billion worth of assets in cryptocurrency. For his work in systems verification, Gu received: an NSF CAREER Award, a VMware Systems Research Award, three Amazon Research Awards, an OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, an SOSP Best Paper Award, and a CACM Research Highlight. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2016 and a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2011.