Yuan Lu

Yuan Lu

Working on blockchain, cryptography, and DApps.

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 received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, where I was awarded the Joseph Leung Award for Best CS Dissertation. 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 focuses on developing efficient and secure solutions to enhance the decentralization and robustness of the Internet and to strengthen the foundations of trustworthy networked systems.

Selected Publications

Many of my research results have been published in top-tier computer science venues (according to CORE ranking, CS rankings, CCF ranking). Examples include publications in ACM PODC, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P (Oakland), USENIX Security, and NDSS:

  • [Oakland’26] Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration and Its Applications. with Hanwen Feng, Yingzi Gao, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu.

  • [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 24-26, 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. Crypto Valley Conference 2025

  • Joseph Leung Award for Best PhD Thesis. NJIT

  • China National Scholarship. Ministry of Education of China

  • Distinguished Master Graduate. Nankai University

  • Excellent Master Thesis. Nankai University

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