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 obtained my doctoral degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology (with receiving 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 are published in top-tier CS conferences, such as ACM PODC, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS. An incomplete list of these studies includes:

  • Dumbo-MPC: Efficient Asynchronous MPC with Optimal Resilience.
          Security 25. with Yuan Su, Jiliang Li, Chengyi Dong, Yuyi Wang, Qiang Tang.

  • Aion: Robust and Efficient Multi-Round Single-Mask Secure Aggregation Against Malicious Participants.
          Security 25. with Yizhong Liu, Zixiao Jia, Zian Jin, et al.

  • Kronos: A Secure and Generic Sharding Blockchain Consensus with Optimized Overhead.
          NDSS 25. with Yizhong Liu, Andi Liu, Zhuocheng Pan, et al.

  • Dumbo-NG: Fast Asynchronous BFT Consensus with Throughput-Oblivious Latency.
          CCS 22. with Yingzi Gao, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang.

  • Bolt-Dumbo Transformer: Asynchronous Consensus As Fast As the Pipelined BFT.
          CCS 22. with Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang.

  • Speeding Dumbo: Pushing Asynchronous BFT Closer to Practice.
          NDSS 22. with Bingyong Guo, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang.

  • Efficient Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement without Private Setups.
          ICDCS 22. with Yingzi Gao, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang.

  • Fair Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery via Blockchain.
          ESORICS 21. with Songlin He, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang, Chase Wu.

  • Generic Superlight Client for Permissionless Blockchains.
          ESORICS 20. with Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang.

  • Dumbo-MVBA: Optimal Multi-Valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, Revisited.
          PODC 20. with Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang.

  • Dragoon: Private Decentralized Human Intelligence Tasks Made Practical.
          ICDCS 20. with Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang.

  • ZebraLancer: Private and Anonymous Crowdsourcing System atop Open Blockchain.
          ICDCS 18. with Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang.

Professional Activities

  • PC for Conferences: CCS 24-25, FC 24-25, 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

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