Yuzhe Tang
• Mailing address: 5991 Bay Hill Circle, Jamesville, NY 13078, USA
• Email: ytang100@syr.edu • Phone: (315) 412-7628 • Web: https://ecs.syr.edu/faculty/yuzhe
Appointments
- 2022 - Now
- Associate Professor, Department of EECS, Syracuse University
- 2014 - 2022
- Assistant Professor, Department of EECS, Syracuse University
Education
- Ph.D.
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA USA), 2009-2014
- M.Sc.
- Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 2006-2009
- B.Sc.
- Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 2002-2006
Research Interests
I am interested in the intersection between cybersecurity and systems. My research mission is to bring systems security and efficiency to large-scale, emerging/evolving infrastructures and applications. 1) On the cyber-security front, I am interested in applying formal methods, protocol analysis, automated program analysis, and software testing techniques to discover vulnerabilities, detect attacks, and design secure systems. I am also interested in the security-oriented measurement of large-scale systems. 2) On the systems front, I am interested in workload analysis, benchmarking, design of optimization schemes and middleware in various host systems.
My recent research focuses on decentralized systems like public blockchains. I tackle the systems security/efficiency challenges at different blockchain layers, including application-level DeFi protocol, smart contracts, down to the systems-level consensus implementations, P2P networking, and web3.0 infrastructures. I am particularly interested in discovering and fixing design flaws in blockchains and DeFi applications using formal methods. My recent research on blockchain mempool security is well recognized in the Ethereum/blockchain developer community. Besides, I am developing and disseminating blockchain educational materials.
In the past, I worked on confidential computing, trusted execution environments, applied privacy-preserving protocols, and cloud security.
Research Funds
- Total amount: 2.01 million USD
- My share: 1.87 million USD
- 1.43 million USD from NSF
- 2022-2025
- CNS Core: Small: One Size doesn’t Fit All: Workload-Aware Cost Optimization for Decentralized Applications on Blockchains
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $498,624 (100%)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2022-2023
- DoS-secure transaction propagation on Ethereum: Exploit generation and attack detection
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $84,392 (100%)
- Ethereum Foundation
- 2021-2024
- Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Blockchain Security Applications,
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), Jing Lei, Farzana Rahman, Hongmei Chi.
- Total: $399,995 + $16,000 (REU), my share: $356,000 (86%)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2018-2022
- SaTC: Small: External Obliviousness in Trusted Execution Environments
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $496,999 + $16,000 (100%)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2019-2020
- Planning IUCRC Syracuse University: Center for High-Assurance Secure Systems and IoT (CHASSI)
- Shiu-Kai Chin (PI), Yuzhe Tang (Co-PI), $15,000
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2018-2020
- SGX-based Key-Management Applications in the Cloud
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $9,996 (100%)
- Intel Gift
- 2017-2018
- Cryptographic Engineering on Modern Trusted Platforms
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), Wenliang Du (Co-PI)
- Total: $300,000, my share: $200,000 (66%)
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- 2017-2017
- Secure Multi-Party Databases by Oblivious Query Translation and Execution
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), $13,200 (100%)
- Air Force Research Lab Visiting Faculty Research Program
- 2015-2016
- Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Analytics in Information Networks
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), $69,861 (100%)
- Cyber Research Institute (CRI)
- Bug bounty awards
Bug bounty from Ethereum Foundation
- $12,000 (2021), $2000 (2022)
Bug bounty from OpenEthereum/Parity
- $8,000 (2021)
Internal Grants
- 2021-2023
- Workload-Adaptive Designs for Cost-Effective Decentralized Applications on Blockchains
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $21,000,
- CUSE Grant (Syracuse University Internal Grant)
- 2018-2020
- On-Campus Blockchain Applications for Education and Beyond
- Wenliang Du (PI), Yuzhe Tang (Co-PI), $30,000
- CUSE Grant (Syracuse University Internal Grant)
- 2018-2020
- Efficient Algorithms for Secure, Large-Scale Graph Mining
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), Sucheta Soundarajan (Co-PI), $30,000
- CUSE Grant (Syracuse University Internal Grant)
Publications
- Underline indicates students advised by Dr. Yuzhe Tang
- EuroS&P 23
- Uncovering Atomicity Violations and Security Risks in Decentralized Exchange in the Wild
- Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Li
- 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023
- TC 23
- BlockExplorer: Exploring Blockchain Big Data via Parallel Processing
- Shipeng Li, Jingwei Li, Yuxing Tang, Xiapu Luo, Zheyuan He, Zihao Li, Xi Cheng, Yang Bai, Ting Chen, Yuzhe Tang, Zhe Liu, Xiao-song Zhang
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- EthiCS 23
- Ethical Challenges in Blockchain Measurement Research
- Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Jiaqi Chen
- The 2nd International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security (EthiCS 2023), Co-located with NDSS 2023
- TSE 23
- Towards Saving Blockchain Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations
- Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Jiaqi Chen, Yuzhe Tang, Qi Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen
- TSE (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)
- ConsensusDay 22
- Towards the Comprehensive Understanding of Ethereum Mempool DoS Security
- Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang
- Consensus Day 22, Co-located with CCS 2022
- CCS 22p
- Enabling Cost-Effective Blockchain Applications via Workload-Adaptive Transaction Execution
- Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2022, Poster
- CCS 21
- DETER: Denial of Ethereum’s Txpool-basEd seRvices
- Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2021
- IMC 21
- TopoShot: Uncovering Ethereum’s Network Topology Leveraging Replacement Transactions
- Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Xianghong Liu
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2021
- Acceptance rate=28%
- NDSS 21
- As Strong As Its Weakest Link: How to Break Blockchain DApps at RPC Service
- Kai Li, Jiaqi Chen, Xianghong Liu, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Xiapu Luo
- The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2021
- Acceptance rate=15.2%
- FSE 21
- iBatch: Saving Ethereum Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations
- Yibo Wang, Qi Zhang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen
- ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2021
- Acceptance rate=24.5%
- Middleware 21i
- Authenticated Key-Value Stores with Hardware Enclaves
- Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Qi Zhang, Jianliang Xu, Ju Chen
- ACM/IFIP Middleware 2021 (Industrial track)
- ToNSE 21
- VFChain: Enabling Verifiable and Auditable Federated Learning via Blockchain Systems
- Zhe Peng, Jianliang Xu, Xiaowen Chu, Shang Gao, Yuan Yao, Rong Gu, Yuzhe Tang
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (ToNSE) 2021
- Middleware 20
- Cost-Effective Data Feeds to Blockchains via Workload-Adaptive Data Replication
- Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Zhehu Yuan, Cheng Xu, Jianliang Xu
- ACM/IFIP Middleware conference 2020
- Acceptance rate=25.2%
- SERIAL 20
- Scalable Log Auditing on Private Blockchains via Lightweight Log-Fork Prevention
- Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu
- Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers 2020, co-located with ACM/IFIP Middleware conference 2020
- ICDE 19
- GEM^2-Tree: A Gas-Efficient Structure for Authenticated Range Queries in Blockchain
- Ce Zhang, Cheng Xu, Jianliang Xu, Yuzhe Tang, Byron Choi
- IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020
- Acceptance rate=26.8%
- SecureComm19
- Secure Consistency Verification for Untrusted Cloud Storage by Public Blockchains
- Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Beom Heyn Kim, Jianliang Xu
- SecureComm 2019
- SecureComm19
- Authenticated LSM Trees with Minimal Trust
- Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Kai Li
- SecureComm 2019 (Short paper)
- CISSE 19
- Hands-on Labs for Secure Programming on Modern Trusted Platforms,
- Yuzhe Tang, Wenliang Du
- The Colloquium For Information Systems Security Education, 2019
- ASONAM 19p
- Computing Node Clustering Coefficients Securely
- K. Areekijseree, Yuzhe Tang, Sucheta Soundarajan
- IEEE ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2019, Poster
- SecureComm18
- Secure and Efficient Multi-Party Directory Publication for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing
- K. Areekijseree, Ju Chen, Yuzhe Tang, Shuang Wang, Arun Iyengar and B. Palanisamy
- SecureComm 2018, Acceptance rate=30.6%
- Cloud 18
- ChainFS: Blockchain-Secured Cloud Storage
- Qiwu Zou, Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Kai Li, Charles Kamoua, Kevin Kwiat, Laurent Njilla
- IEEE Cloud 2018, Acceptance rate=20%
- Cloud 18
- Pinchao Liu, Liting Hu, Hailu Xu, Zhiyuan Shi, Jason Liu, Qingyang Wang, Jai Dayal and Yuzhe Tang
- A Toolset for Detecting Containerized Application’s Dependencies in CaaS Clouds
- IEEE Cloud 2018, Acceptance rate=20%
- Cloud 18
- Hailu Xu, Liting Hu, Pinchao Liu, Yao Xiao, Wentao Wang, Jai Dayal, Qingyang Wang and Yuzhe Tang
- Oases: An Online Scalable Spam Detection System for Social Networks
- IEEE Cloud 2018, Acceptance rate=20%
- FC 18w
- Lightweight Blockchain Logging for Data-Intensive Applications
- Yuzhe Tang, Zihao Xing, Cheng Xu, Ju Chen, Jianliang Xu
- The Workshop of Trusted Smart Contract at the International Conference of Financial Cryptography 2018
- TVT 18
- Non-interactive Identity-based Underwater data transmission with Anonymity and Zero-knowledge
- Changsheng Wan, Vir V Phoha, Yuzhe Tang, Aiqun Hu
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2017
- CIC 17
- PADS: Privacy-preserving Auction Design for Allocating Dynamically Priced Cloud Resources
- Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Yuzhe Tang, SD Madhu Kumar
- IEEE CIC 2017
- SOSP 17w
- Strongly Secure and Efficient Data Shuffle on Hardware Enclaves
- Ju Chen, Yuzhe Tang, Hao Zhou
- The Workshop of Systems Software for Trusted Execution (SysTEX) at ACM SOSP 2017
- ICDCS 17p
- Towards Secure Public Directory for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing
- Amin Fallahi, Xi Liu, Yuzhe Tang, Shuang Wang, Rui Zhang
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Poster
- ICDCS 17w
- Social-Aware Decentralization for Efficient and Secure Multi-Party Computation
- Yuzhe Tang, Sucheta Soundarajan
- The Workshop of Big-Data Privacy and Security at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
- BMC 16
- Secure Multi-pArty Computation Grid LOgistic REgression (SMAC-GLORE)
- Haoyi Shi, Chao Jiang, Wenrui Dai, Xiaoqian Jiang, Yuzhe Tang, Lucila Ohno-Machado and Shuang Wang
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making [open access]
- SecDev 16
- Towards Building Practical And Secure Multi-Party Databases
- Yuzhe Tang, Wenqing Zhuang
- IEEE Cyber-security Development Conference 2016 (Abstract)
- Bioinfomatics 16
- HEALER: Homomorphic computation of ExAct Logistic rEgRession for secure rare disease variants analysis in GWAS
- Shuang Wang, Y. Zhang, W. Dai, K. Lauter, M. Kim, Yuzhe Tang, X. Jiang
- Oxford Journals BioInformatics, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv563
- BMC 15
- Privacy-preserving GWAS analysis on federated genomic datasets
- Scott D Constable, Yuzhe Tang, Shuang Wang, Xiaoqian Jiang, Steve Chapin
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015, [Open access]
- TKDE 15
- Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Search in Information Networks
- Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu
- IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering 27(9): 2424-2437 (2015)
- CCGrid 15
- Deferred Lightweight Indexing for Log-Structured Key-Value Stores
- Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Ling Liu, Balaji Palanisamy
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing 2015: 11-20
- Best Paper Award
- HPBDC 15
- KTV Tree: Interactive Top-K Aggregation on Large Dataset in Cloud
- Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu, Junichi Tatemura, Hakan Hacigumus
- IEEE International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2015: 136-141
- HotCloud 15
- Privacy-Preserving Offloading of Mobile App to the Public Cloud
- Yue Duan, Mu Zhang, Heng Yin, Yuzhe Tang
- USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing 2015
- Acceptance rate=32.8%
- TBC 15
- Secure Multi-party Computation on Grid Logistic Regression
- Haoyi Shi, Shuang Wang, Wenrui Dai, Yuzhe Tang, Xiaoqian Jiang, LucilaOhno-Machado
- Annual Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2015
- ACSAC 14
- Lightweight Authentication of Freshness in Outsourced Key-Value Stores
- Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu, Xin Hu, Jiyong Jang
- USENIX/ACM Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2014: 176-185
- Acceptance rate=19.9%
- ICDCS 14
- e-PPI: Locator Service in Information Networks with Personalized Privacy Preservation
- Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu, Arun Iyengar
- IEEE International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems 2014: 186-197
- Acceptance rate=13%
- EDBT 14
- Diff-Index: Differentiated Index in Distributed Log-Structured Data Stores
- Wei Tan, Sandeep Tata, Yuzhe Tang, Liana Fong
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2014: 700-711
- Acceptance rate=20%
- JDPD 14
- Anonymizing Continuous Queries with Delay-tolerant Mix-zones on Road Networks
- Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Shicong Meng, Yuzhe Tang
- International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases 32(1): 91-118 (2014)
- ICDE 14d
- Outsourcing multi-version key-value stores with verifiable data freshness
- Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu, Ting Wang, Xin Hu, Reiner Sailer, Peter Pietzuch
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2014: 1214-1217 (Demo paper)
- TPDS 13
- Auto-pipelining for Data Stream Processing
- Yuzhe Tang, Bugra Gedik
- IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 24(12): 2344-2354 (2013)
- Cloud 13
- Residency Aware Inter-VM Communication in Virtualized Cloud: Performance Measurement and Analysis
- Qi Zhang, Ling Liu, Yi Ren, Kisung Lee, Yuzhe Tang, Xu Zhao, Yang Zhou
- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013: 204-211
- Cloud 13
- Efficient and Customizable Data Partitioning Framework for Distributed Big RDF Data Processing in the Cloud
- Kisung Lee, Ling Liu, Yuzhe Tang, Qi Zhang, Yang Zhou
- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013: 327-334
- MSN 12
- Location Privacy with Road Network Mix-Zones
- Balaji Palanisamy, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Shicong Meng, Yuzhe Tang
- IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks 2012: 124-131
- Cloud 12
- Reliable State Monitoring in Cloud Data Centers
- Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar, I. Rouvellou, Ling Liu, Kisung Lee, Balaji Palanisamy, Yuzhe Tang
- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2012: 951-958
- Best Paper Award
- CIKM 11
- Privacy Preserving Indexing for eHealth Information Networks
- Yuzhe Tang, Ting Wang, Ling Liu, Shicong Meng, Balaji Palanisamy
- Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2011: 905-914
- Acceptance rate=15% (Full paper)
- TPDS 11
- A Lightweight Multi-dimensional Index for Complex Queries over DHTs
- Yuzhe Tang, Jianliang Xu, Shuigeng Zhou, Wang-Chien Lee, Dingxiong Deng, Yue Wang
- IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 22(12): 2046-2054 (2011)
- TKDE 10
- LIGHT: A Query-Efficient yet Low-Maintenance Indexing Scheme over DHTs
- Yuzhe Tang, Shuigeng Zhou, Jianliang Xu
- IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering 22(1): 59-75 (2010)
- ICDCS 09
- m-LIGHT: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Data over DHTs
- Yuzhe Tang, Jianliang Xu, Shuigeng Zhou, Wang-Chien Lee
- IEEE International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems 2009: 191-198
- Acceptance rate=16%
- ICDCS 08
- LHT: A Low-Maintenance Indexing Scheme over DHTs
- Yuzhe Tang, Shuigeng Zhou
- IEEE International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems 2008: 141-151
Patents
- 2015
- Adaptive Auto-pipelining in Stream Processing Applications
- Bugra Gedik, Scott A. Schneider, Yuzhe Tang, Kun-lung Wu
- US patent granted (US9098350B2)
Teaching
- Fall 2022
- CIS629/FIN629, Blockchain Foundation and Applications
- Spring 2022
- CSE384, Introduction to Systems Programming
- Fall 2021
- CIS629/FIN629, Blockchain Foundation and Applications
- Fall 2020
- CIS600/FIN600, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
- Fall 2019
- CIS600/FIN600, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
- CIS628/CIS428, Introduction to Applied Cryptography
- Spring 2019
- CSE384, System Programming
- Fall 2018
- CIS600/FIN600, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
- Spring 2018
- CIS300, Introduction to System Programming
- Fall 2017
- CIS700, Modern Information Security and Privacy
- Spring 2017
- CIS/CSE600, Applied Cryptography
- CIS655/CSE661, Advanced Computer Architecture
- CIS423, System Programming
- Spring 2016
- CIS700/CSE791, Big-Data and Cloud Security, website: [link]
- Fall 2015
- CIS655/CSE661, Advanced Computer Architecture, website: [link]
- Spring 2015
- CIS700/CSE791, Distributed Systems in Cloud, website: [link]
- Fall 2014
- CIS655/CSE661, Advanced Computer Architecture (180 students)
Advising
Ph.D. students
- Yibo Wang: FSE’21 (1st author), IMC’21, CCS’21, CCS’22 Poster (1st author), ConsensusDay’22 (1st author)
- Jiaqi Chen: NDSS’21, IMC’21, FSE’21, Middleware’20
- Xianghong Liu: NDSS’21, IMC’21
- Yuxuan Zhou
- Wanning Ding: Ethereum Protocol Fellowship’22 awardee
Undergraduate students (REU)
- Jack Willis, Eniola Mosaku, Nicholas Sweet
Alumni
- Dr. Kai Li (Ph.D., 2022), Tenure-track Assistant Professor in CS dept. at San Diego State Univ.
- 1st-author papers (during Ph.D.): CCS’21, IMC’21, NDSS’21, Middleware’20, etc.
- Internships: IBM Research ’20, Amazon ’21
- Award: NortonLife Ph.D. fellowship finalist ’22
- M.Sc.: Vinutha Karanth (Microsoft), Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu (Chainalysis), Kang Lou, Qi Zhang (CertiK), Katchaguy Areekijseree (PhD at Syracuse Univ.), Hari Krishna Gajarla (Bloomberg)
- B.Sc. (including REU): Zhehu Yuan (Ph.D. at NYU), Qiwu Zou (Cornell Univ.), Congcong Xie (NYU, then Oracle), Adam Piekarski, Jeong Bin Oh (A database startup), Sharell Scott (Google)
- Visiting scholar: Cheng Xu (Postdoc at Simon Fraser Univ.)
Professional Services
- Program committee chair
- BlockDM 21/20/19 (The International Workshop of Blockchain and Data Management, co-located with ICDE)
- GLSD 20/18 (Great Lake Security Day)
- Program committee
- IEEE Euro S&P 23 (7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy)
- IEEE ICDCS 23/20/17/15 (43rd/41st/38th/36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems)
- ICCCN 23 (The 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks)
- MetaCom 23 (IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications)
- IEEE DSC 23/22 (6th/5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing))
- SecureComm 22 (EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks)
- EthiCS 22 (The 1st International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security)
- ICICS 22/21 (The 23rd/24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security)
- IEEE MASS 22 (The 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems)
- WWW 21/20 (30th/29th The Web Conference)
- IPDPS 18 (32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing)
- EuroSys 18 (shadow) (The European Conference on Computer Systems)
- IEEE Cloud 15 (IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing)
- PAIS 16/15 (9th/8th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society)
- Journal reviewer
- TDSC 22 (IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing)
- TIFS 22 (IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security)
- TKDE 22/17/16/15 (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering)
- TPDS 22 (IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems)
- ToIT 22 (ACM Transactions on Internet Technology)
- BCRA 22 (BlockChain: Research and Applications)
- TNSE 22/21 (IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering)
- TCC 22 (IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing)
- JPDC 22 (Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing)
- COSE 22 (Computers and Security COSE)
- ACM TOCS 17 (ACM Transactions on Computer Systems)
- ACM ToIT 21 (ACM Transactions on Internet Technology)
- IEEE TSC 21/17/16/15 (IEEE Transactions on Services Computing)
- IEEE TCC 21/15 (IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing)
- JBFT 20 (Journal of Banking and Financial Technology)
- IEEE Computer Magazine 17
- TWeb 15 (ACM Transactions on the Web)
- IEEE TCSVT 14 (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology)
- Panel review
- NSF panel 16, 20 (twice), 21
- Campus services
- EECS ABET Assessment and Accreditation committee
- EECS Faculty Search Committee, EECS ABET Assessment and Accreditation committee
- University academic integrity panel, MAE program review
- ECS research day poster judge, 22
Internship/Industrial Experience
- 2022 - Now
- Avant fund adviser (Part-time), a blockchain investment firm (www.avant.fund)
- 05/2013-08/2013
- Internship at IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Yorktown Heights, NY USA
- 05/2012-08/2012
- Internship at IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Yorktown Heights, NY USA
- 05/2011-08/2011
- Internship at IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Hawthorn, NY USA
- 05/2010-08/2010
- Internship at NEC Labs America at Cupertino, CA USA
- 01/2009-06/2009
- Internship at Microsoft Research Asia at Beijing, China
- 01/2006-04/2006
- Internship at IBM Corp. at Shanghai, China
Honors and Awards
- Ethereum Foundation Academic Grant Awardee, 2022
- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Award, 2017
- Best paper award, 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 2015
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2012
- Best paper award, 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2012
- Outstanding Master Thesis of Shanghai, Shanghai Government, 2010
- Tung’s Oriental Scholarship, Tung’s Oriental, 2008
- HP Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship, Hewlett-Packard, 2008
- ICDCS Student Travel Grant, TCDP (IEEE Computer Society), 2008
- Graduate Student Fellowship of Fudan University, 2007-2008 (2 times)
- Outstanding Graduated Student of Fudan University, 2006
- Excellence Award, Tencent Innovation Contest, 2006
- The Peoples Scholarship of Fudan University, 2002-2006 (4 times)
- Chinese Physics Olympiads, First Prize in Hunan Province, 2001
Invited Talks
Research talks
- Understanding and Hardening Decentralized Systems Security in the Wild
- Notre Dame ’22 [link], NUS ’22 [link], UK Security and Privacy seminar ’22 [link], Ohio State University ’21, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ’21 [pdf], Consensus day ’21
- Lightweight Data Authentication in Outsourced Key-Value Stores
- Cornell University ’17 [link], Xi’an Jiao Tong University ’17, Fudan University ’16), Louisiana State University ’14
- Searching HIE with Differentiated Privacy Preservation
- HealthTech ’14, co-located with USENIX Security, San Diego, CA
- Scalable and secure cloud service in big data systems
- University of Delaware ’14, North Kentucky University ’14, NEC Lab ’14, IBM Research ’14, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Panel
- Blockchain Database, VLDB ’21 panel [link].
Lectures to the general public
- Public lecture: “Get Your Head In The Clouds! Cloud Computing: Risks and Rewards”
- TACNY Junior Cafe Scientifique, Museum of Science & Technology, Syracuse (’17)
- NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) Jr. Science Camp. hosting Grades 7 - 12 in Syracuse City School District (’17)
- Public lecture: “Blockchain: Applications, Security Promises and Internals”
- CSIAC (’17), Syracuse University Alumni Event (’21)