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Yuzhe Tang Associate ProfessorDept. of EECS, Syracuse University 4206 Center of Science and Technology, Syracuse, 13244-4100 Email: ytang100 [at] syr [dot] edu C.V.: [webpage],[pdf]  @Twitter, Github, Scholar, LinkedIn |
We have multiple Ph.D. opennings for self-motivated and talented students to join our group [link]. Please share your thoughts/ideas on my recent papers before sending an email.
March 2024: Our research on Ethereum key leakage and misuse accepted to WWW 24 (short paper). Congrats to Yuxuan and Jiaqi!
Feb 2024: Serve RAID 24 PC. Please submit your best work [CFP].
Jan 2024: Joint work on upgradable smart contracts accepted to WWW 24!
Oct 2023: Serve Euro S&P 24 PC and WWW 24 Security Area Chair. Please submit your best work.
Aug 2023: Our blockchain-security work presented at the Stanford Blockchain Conference [SBC 2023].
Apr 2023: The security patch we developed is merged to Geth 1.11.4 [release notes]. Congrats to Wanning, Yibo and Yuxuan!
Apr 2023: Grateful to receive an academic grant from Ethereum Foundation on blockchain security research [news].
Mar 2023: Grateful to receive cloud funds from [CloudBank].
Mar 2023: Serve NDSS 24 program committee. Please submit your best work: [CFP].
Mar 2023: Serve ACSAC 23 program committee. Please submit your best work: [CFP].
Feb 2023: Our DeFi security work is conditionally accepted to Euro S&P 23. Congrats to Jiaqi!
Feb 2023: Our collaborative work on Blockchain Data Explorer is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)!
Jan 2023: Our paper on Blockchain Ethics is accepted to EthiCS 23!
Jan 2023: The extension of our iBatch work (FSE’21) is accepted to TSE 23. Congrats to Yibo and Jiaqi!
Oct 2022: My student Wanning Ding received Ethereum Protocol Fellowship. Congrats to Wanning!
Aug 2022: Serve Euro S&P 23 program committee. Please submit your best work: [CFP].
Aug 2022: Our blockchain paper accepted to ConsensusDay 2022. Congrats to Yibo and Kai!
July 2022: Grateful to receive an NSF CNS grant (Single PI) on blockchain systems research.
June 2022: Grateful to receive an academic grant (Single PI) from Ethereum Foundation on blockchain security research.
June 2022: Invited talk on blockchain applications at DBSec 2022 [link].
Apr. 2022: My Ph.D. student [Kai Li] is joining [the Computer Science Dept. at San Diego State Univ.] as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Godspeed to Kai!!
Feb. 2022: Invited talk on our blockchain research in [UK Security seminar] and at [NUS].
Feb. 2022: Invited talk in [NSF blockchain-education workshop]: [slides].
Sep. 2021: Our blockchain paper accepted to ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Kai and Yibo!
Aug. 2021: Our blockchain paper accepted to ACM IMC 2021. Congrats to Kai!
Aug. 2021: Our paper accepted to ACM Middleware 2021 (Industrial track).
Aug. 2021: Serve a blockchain panel in VLDB’21 [link].
June 2021: Grateful to receive an NSF SaTC education grant. We will be developing blockchain labs [link].
June 2021: Our blockchain paper accepted to ESEC/FSE 2021. Congrats to Yibo, Kai and Jiaqi!
Oct. 2020: Our blockchain paper accepted to NDSS 2021. Congrats to Kai, Jiaqi and Xianghong!
Aug. 2020: Our blockchain paper accepted to Middleware 2020. Congrats to Kai and Zhehu!
Nov. 2019: Chair blockchain workshop BlockDM 2020. Please submit your best work [link].
July 2019: Deliver a public lecture to K-12 in Syracuse City School District.
Apr 2019: Honorable mention in Google & Intel 2019 C3 Challenge. Congrats to Kai and Burak! [link]
May 2018: Release blockchain labs and deliver them in the SEED workshop: [link].
Apr. 2018: Release Intel SGX labs: [link].
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in cyber-security and computer systems research. My current research tackles problems in the emerginng/fast-evolving domains like blockchains, web3, and smart contracts from the following angles:
Vulnerability discovery and attack detection
Defensive system designs
Security measurement in the wild
Performance and workloads
Security education
My projects are generously supported by National Science Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, etc.
My research results in patches in popular open-source software, such as Ethereum Go client [Geth 1.11.4]. I also build the [BADD labs] for active learning in Blockchain And Dapp Development.
Selected Publications
Underline: students advised by me.
WWW'24: “Characterizing Ethereum Upgradable Smart Contracts and Their Security Implications”, AR=20.2%, Xiaofan Li, Jin Yang, Jiaqi Chen, Yuzhe Tang, Xing Gao. [preprint]
WWW'24 (short paper): “Towards Understanding Crypto-Asset Risks on Ethereum Caused by Key Leakage on the Internet”, Yuxuan Zhou*, Jiaqi Chen*, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang and G. Gu. (* co first authors).
Euro S&P'23: “Understanding the Security Risks of Decentralized Exchanges by Uncovering Unfair Trades in the Wild”, AR=35.7%, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanning Ding , Yuzhe Tang, X. Wang, Kai Li. [preprint], [slides], [2-page slides]
CCS'21: “DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices”, AR=22%, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang. [pdf], [slides], [talk], [poster], [Patch@Geth-1.11.4], [CVE-2022-23327], [CVE-2022-23328]
NDSS'21: “As Strong As Its Weakest Link: How to Break (and Fix) Blockchain DApps at RPC Service”, AR=15.2%, Kai Li, Jiaqi Chen, Xianghong Liu, Yuzhe Tang, X. Wang, X. Luo. [pdf], [slides], [demo1], [demo2]
IMC'21: “TopoShot: Uncovering Ethereum's Network Topology Leveraging Replacement Transactions”, AR=28%, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Xianghong Liu. [pdf], [slides], [poster], [open dataset], [talk@IMC’21]
FSE'21: “iBatch: Saving Ethereum Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations”, AR=24.5%, Yibo Wang, Qi Zhang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, X. Luo, T. Chen. [pdf], [extended version], [html], [slides]
Middleware'21 (Industrial track): “Authenticated Key-Value Stores with Hardware Enclaves”, Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Q. Zhang, J. Xu, J. Chen. [pdf], [extended version] [slides]
Middleware'20: “Cost-Effective Data Feeds to Blockchains via Workload-Adaptive Data Replication”, AR=25.2%, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Zhehu Yuan, C. Xu, J. Xu. [pdf], [extended version], [slides], [talk@Middleware’20], [code]
ICDE'19: “GEM^2-Tree: A Gas-Efficient Structure for Authenticated Range Queries in Blockchain”, Full Paper, AR=26.8%, C. Zhang, C. Xu, J. Xu, Yuzhe Tang, B. Choi. [pdf]
Full list of publications: [link], [DBLP].
Open-source Software
BADD Labs: Hands-on labs for Blockchain And Dapp Development: [Github repo.], [website]
Secondary index on HBase: [Github repo.]
Intel SGX emulator by Linux kernel module: [Github repo.]
Advising
I am fortunate and grateful to work with the following bright Ph.D. students.
Yibo Wang [link]: FSE'21, TSE'23, CCS’22 (poster), ConsensusDay’22; IMC'21, CCS'21
Jiaqi Chen [link]: Euro S&P'23; NDSS'21, IMC'21, FSE'21, Middleware'20
Wanning Ding [link]: Ethereum Protocol Fellowship’22 awardee
Zhihua Yang [link]
Jin Yang [link]: WWW'24
Yuxuan Zhou [link]: WWW’24 (short);
Alumni:
Kai Li (Ph.D.) [link]: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at San Diego State Univ. (2022 NortonLifeLock Fellowship finalist, internship at IBM Research)
[Link] to our FullStack Security Lab (FSSL).
Teaching
CIS/FIN629 (2022/2021/2020/2019/2018): Blockchain Foundations and Applications. [website] [lectures] [hands-on labs]
CSE384 (2023/2022/2019/2018/2017): Systems and network programming. [website]
CIS628/428 (2019): Introduction to applied cryptography. [website], [lecture notes]
CIS655 (2016/2015/2014): Advanced computer architecture. [website]
CIS700 (2015): Research seminar. [website]