Yuzhe Tang
ytang100@syr.edu • +1 678 793 2706 • ecs.syr.edu/faculty/yuzhe
4-206 Center for Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100, USA
Academic Appointments
- 2014* -
- Assistant Professor, Department of EECS, Syracuse University
* including parental leaves (two times)
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 broadly interested in cyber-security and distributed systems. My current research focuses on distributed systems security and efficiency, in emerging/evolving infrastructures and applications such as blockchains, web infrastructures, cloud computing, etc. My research tackles the fundamental design tradeoff between security and performance. On the one hand, I analyze and measure large-scale deployed systems to identify, verify, and mitigate vulnerabilities. On the other hand, I optimize performance and build middlewares on security-centric systems.
Publications
- Underline indicates students advised by Dr. Yuzhe Tang
- 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
- Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, 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%
- SComm 19
- Secure Consistency Verification for Untrusted Cloud Storage by Public Blockchains
- Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Beom Heyn Kim, Jianliang Xu
- SecureComm 2019
- SComm 19
- 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 paper)
- SComm 18
- 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
- VT 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 rEgRes-sion 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 Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 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 Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 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
- In submission
- Towards Saving Blockchain Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations
- Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen
- In submission to TSE (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)
- In submission
- Efficiently Hardening SGX Enclaves against Side Channels via Dynamic Program Partitioning
- Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Cheng Xu
- In submission to ICSE 2022
- In submission
- AEEP: Automated Enclave EVM Partition
- Xi Xiao, Hanqi Zhang, Wentao Xiao, Xiapu Luo, Yuzhe Tang, Xingjun Wang
- In submission to ICSE 2022
Research Funds
- Summary: Grants awarded 9, pending 3, total (Tang’s share awarded): $1.23M
- 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, PI Tang’s portion: $340,000
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2018-2021
- SaTC: Small: External Obliviousness in Trusted Execution Environments
- Yuzhe Tang (Single PI), $496,999 + $16,000
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2019-2020
- Planning IUCRC Syracuse University: Center for High-Assurance Secure Systems and IoT (CHASSI)
- Shui-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
- Intel Gift
- 2017-2018
- Cryptographic Engineering on Modern Trusted Platforms
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), Wenliang Du (Co-PI), $300,000
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- 2017-2017
- Secure Multi-Party Databases by Oblivious Query Translation and Execution
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), $13,200
- Air Force Research Lab Visiting Faculty Research Program
- 2015-2016
- Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Analytics in Information Networks
- Yuzhe Tang (PI), $69,861
- Cyber Research Institute (CRI)
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)
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 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.
- Kai Li: CCS’21 (1st author), IMC’21 (1st author), NDSS’21 (1st author), Middleware’20 (1st author).
- Internships: IBM Research (’20), Amazon (’21)
- Yibo Wang: FSE’21 (1st author), IMC’21 (co-author)
- Jiaqi Chen: NDSS’21, IMC’21, FSE’21, Middleware’20 (co-author)
- Xianghong Liu: NDSS’21, IMC’21 (co-author)
- Yuxuan Zhou
Alumni
- M.Sc.: Vinutha Karanth (Microsoft), Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu (Chainalysis), Kang Lou, 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 chair
- Great Lake Security Day (GLSD 20/18)
- The International Workshop of Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM) 21/20/19 (co-located with ICDE)
- Program committee
- WWW (21/20), ICDCS (20/17/15), IPDPS 18, ICICS (22/21), IEEE Cloud 15, PAIS (16/15)
- TOCS 17, TKDE (17/16/15), TSC (21/17/16/15), IEEE Computing 17, TWeb 15, TCSVT 14
Internship Experience
- 05/2013-08/2013
- IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Yorktown Heights, NY USA
- 05/2012-08/2012
- IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Yorktown Heights, NY USA
- 05/2011-08/2011
- IBM Research (T.J. Watson Lab) at Hawthorn, NY USA
- 05/2010-08/2010
- NEC Labs America at Cupertino, CA USA
- 01/2009-06/2009
- Microsoft Research Asia at Beijing, China
- 01/2006-04/2006
- IBM Corp. at Shanghai, China
Honors and Awards
- 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
- Blockchain communication security and efficiency
- Ohio State University (’21), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (’21)
- DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool Service
- Lightweight Data Authentication in Outsourced Key-Value Stores
- Cornell University (’17), Xi’an Jiao Tong University (’17), Fudan University (’16), Louisiana State University (’14)
- Searching HIE with Differentiated Privacy Preservation
- HealthTech ’14, colocated 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)