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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 |
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Aug 2025: Serve PC in CCS 26 and USENIX Security 26. Please submit your best work.
June 2025: Blockchain-security research is funded by Flashbots. Thank you, Flashbots!
June 2025: Research on blockchain-based data management accepted to TKDE. Congrats to our collaborators!
Apr. 2025: Survey on blockchain security research is accepted to the reputable “Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security” journal: [pdf]. Congrats to collaborators!
March 2025: My Ph.D. student [Yibo Wang] is joining [EECS at Univ. of Wyoming] as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Godspeed to Yibo!!
March 2025: My student Yibo receives All University Doctoral Prize from Syracuse University. Congrats to Yibo!
March 2025: My student Wanning will do internship at Chainlink. Congrats to Wanning!
March 2025: Serve PC in IEEE S&P 26, NDSS 26 and ACSAC 25. Please submit your best work.
Jan 2025: Joint work on blockchain wallet security accepted to WWW 25. Congrats to Sajad and Yue!
Research Interests
My mission is to understand, enable, and verify the security of digital infrastructures in high-impact and emerging domains. I focus on the research of cybersecurity, systems, and interdisciplinary topics in decentralized systems (e.g., blockchains and smart contracts), open-source ecosystems, and other emerging technologies, My research addresses technical challenges:
Security analysis and vulnerability discovery: [USENIX Security 24], [CCS 21]
Provable security and economics of security: [IEEE S&P 25]
Security-oriented measurement and cyber-crimes: [Euro S&P 23], [IMC 21], [NDSS 21]
Perf. optimization & workload analysis: [TSE 23/FSE 21], [Middleware 20], [ICDE 19], [TPDS 13]
Secure data storage: [ACSAC 14], [EDBT 14], [ICDCS 08]
Data privacy: [TKDE 15], [ICDCS 14], [CIKM 11]
Security/systems education: [BADD labs], [FuSSIL labs]
My research is generously supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Ethereum Foundation, Flashbots, Intel, NSA, etc. My research results in patches in popular open-source software (e.g., [Geth 1.11.4]).
Selected Publications
Underline: students advised by me.
S&P'25: “Asymmetric Mempool DoS Security: Formal Definitions and Provable Secure Designs”, AR=14.2%, Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, Yibo Wang. [pdf], [slides]
WWW'25: “SigScope: Detecting and Understanding Off-Chain Message Signing-related Vulnerabilities in Decentralized Applications”, AR=19.8%, Sajad Meisami, Hugo Dabadie, Song Li, Yuzhe Tang, Yue Duan. [pdf]
USENIX Security'24: “Understanding Ethereum Mempool Security under Asymmetric DoS by Symbolized Stateful Fuzzing”, AR=14.5%, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Wanning Ding, Zhihua Yang. [pdf], [slides]
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], [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]
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].
Advising
I am fortunate and grateful to work with the following bright Ph.D. students.
Jiaqi Chen [link]: WWW'24, WWW'24 (short), Euro S&P'23; NDSS'21, IMC'21, FSE'21, Middleware'20; internship at CertiK
Wanning Ding [link]: S&P'25, Ethereum Protocol Fellowship’22; Security’24; internship at Chainlink
Yuxuan Zhou [link]: WWW’24 (short)
Md Rizwanul Rizwanul Haque [link]
Alumni:
Kai Li (PhD’22) [link]: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology
Yibo Wang (PhD’25) [link]: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Univ. of Wyoming
[Link] to our FullStack Security Lab (FSSL
.)
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.]
Teaching
CSE643 (2024): Computer Security [website]
CIS/FIN629 (2025/2022/2021/2020/2019/2018): Blockchain Foundations and Applications. [website] [lectures] [hands-on labs]
CSE384 (2025/2023/2022/2019/2018/2017): 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]