Hi, welcome to the homepage of Yuan Lu, Ph.D. (simplified Chinese 路远 or traditional Chinese 路遠, which literally means a long way to go). I obtained my doctoral degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology (while receiving the Joseph Leung Award for Best PhD Thesis). I have a broad spectrum of interests in blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications, and the design and analysis of multi-party cryptographic protocols. In particular, my research aims at bringing efficient solutions to a few critical issues preventing blockchains from being broadly used in practice.
Selected Publications
Many of my research results have been published in top-tier computer science conferences, including ACM PODC, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P (Oakland), USENIX Security, and NDSS. An incomplete list is shown below:
[CCS’25] Realizing Corrupted-Shard Tolerance: A Sharding Blockchain with Preserving Global Resilience. with Yizhong Liu, Andi Liu, Zhuocheng Pan, et al.
[Security’25] Aion: Robust and Efficient Multi-Round Single-Mask Secure Aggregation Against Malicious Participants. with Yizhong Liu, Zixiao Jia, Zian Jin, et al.
[Security’25] Dumbo-MPC: Efficient Asynchronous MPC with Optimal Resilience. with Yuan Su, Jiliang Li, Chengyi Dong, Yuyi Wang, Qiang Tang.
[NDSS’25] Kronos: A Secure and Generic Sharding Blockchain Consensus with Optimized Overhead. with Yizhong Liu, Andi Liu, Zhuocheng Pan, et al.
[CCS’22] Dumbo-NG: Fast Asynchronous BFT Consensus with Throughput-Oblivious Latency. with Yingzi Gao, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang.
[CCS’22] Bolt-Dumbo Transformer: Asynchronous Consensus As Fast As the Pipelined BFT. with Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang.
[NDSS’22] Speeding Dumbo: Pushing Asynchronous BFT Closer to Practice. with Bingyong Guo, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang.
[PODC’20] Dumbo-MVBA: Optimal Multi-Valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, Revisited. with Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang.
Professional Activities
PC for Conferences: CCS 24-25, FC 25-26, PST 20, APKC 2021, etc.
Chairing: AI+blockchain track of IEEE ICDLT 25, Phd forum of SecureComm 26.
Referee for Journals: Distributed Computing, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE TVT, ACM Computing Surveys, IET Information Security, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, etc.
Referee for Conferences: ACM PODC 2021, USENIX Security 2021, ASIACRYPT 2021-2018, INFOCOM 2020-2017, ESORICS 2020/2019/2017, AsiaCCS 2020, ACNS 2019, PKC 2022/2019, TrustCom 2019, ACISP 2018, IEEE Blockchain 2018, ICICS 2018, ICBC 2018, etc.
Research Fundings
Asynchronous Byzantine-Fault Tolerant Protocols for Blockchain. NSFC, PI, 2021-2023
Design and Analysis of Blockchain Consensus for Complicated Networks. MOST, PI, 2023-2025
Awards and Honors
Promising Paper Award. awarded by Crypto Valley Conference 2025
Joseph Leung Award for Best PhD Thesis. awarded by CS deparment at NJIT
China National Scholarship. awarded by the Ministry of Education of China
Distinguished Master Graduate. awarded by Nankai University
Excellent Master Thesis. awarded by Nankai University
Medium Coverage
- Dumbo-MVBA was reported widely by major media in China including CoinDesk中文网, 光明日报, 科学网, 中国新闻网.