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, I focus on developing efficient and secure solutions that strengthen the foundations of trustworthy networked systems, with a specific interest in enhancing robustness, protecting privacy, and improving censorship-resilience for citizen-first decentralized infrastructure and user-centric Web3 applications.

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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