Zhenliang Lu
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Zhenliang Lu Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science E-mail: luzhenliang1992 [at] gmail.com |
About Me
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the CS Department at CityUHK. Prior to this, I was a postdoc at NTU (Oct. 2024 – Aug. 2025), working with Prof. Kwok Yan Lam. Before that, I was a postdoc at USYD (Oct. 2023 – Sep. 2024), working with Prof. Qiang Tang and Prof. Vincent Gramoli. I completed my PhD at USYD in Aug. 2023, supervised by Prof. Qiang Tang. From 2017 to 2021, I was enrolled in the PhD program at NJIT, also under the supervision of Prof. Qiang Tang. I earned both my BSc and MSc in Mathematics from HFUT.
Research Interests
My research interests primarily focus on Blockchain, Consensus, Distributed Computing/Cryptography, Byzantine Storage, and Order Fairness.
Openings
I am looking for highly motivated candidates for research positions (PhD/MPhil/RA) in Blockchain, Cryptography, and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). If you are interested, please feel free to email me and attach your CV with the subject line: "[Position] Application – [Your Full Name]."
Publications (Per crypto community convention, authorship is in alphabetical order except when the paper title is in italics)
Faster Multi-valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Tiancheng Mai, Qiang Tang
DSN 2025 (Best Paper Award). [PDF]Optimal Byzantine Agreement with Message Drops
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuchen Ye
ASIACRYPT 2025. [PDF]Asynchronous Dynamic Committee Proactive Secret Sharing for Large Data
Zhenliang Lu, Tianyi Zhang, Alan Fekete, Kwok Yan Lam, Qiang Tang
ICDCS 2025. [PDF]JUMBO: Fully Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Truly Scalable
Hao Cheng, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang
TDSC, 2025. [PDF]Turritopsis: Practical Dynamic Asynchronous BFT
Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuyi Wang, Jing Xu
TIFS, 2025. [PDF]Dragon: Decentralization at the cost of Representation after Arbitrary Grouping and Its Applications to Sub-cubic DKG and Interactive Consistency
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
PODC 2024. [PDF]Resilience to Chain-Quality Attacks in Fair Separability
Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
ESORICS 2024. [PDF]AOAB: Optimal and Fair Ordering of Financial Transactions
Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
DSN 2024. [PDF]Bolt-Dumbo Transformer: Asynchronous Consensus As Fast As the Pipelined BFT
Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
CCS 2022. [PDF]Dumbo-NG: Fast Asynchronous BFT Consensus with Throughput-Oblivious Latency
Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
CCS 2022. [PDF]Speeding Dumbo: Pushing Asynchronous BFT Closer to Practice
Bingyong Guo, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
NDSS 2022. [PDF]Efficient Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement without Private Setups
Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
ICDCS 2022. [PDF]Dumbo: Faster Asynchronous BFT Protocols
Bingyong Guo, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
CCS 2020. [PDF]Dumbo-MVBA: Optimal Multi-Valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, Revisited
Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang
PODC 2020. [PDF]
Manuscripts (Per crypto community convention, authorship is in alphabetical order except when the paper title is in italics)
Optimal Multi-valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement and Its Applications
Yuan Lu,, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang
Optimistic Asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing
Bin Hu, Jianwei Liu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Zhuolun Xiang, Zongyang Zhang
Optimistic Sleepy Atomic Broadcast
Kwok Yan Lam, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Xinrui Zhang
Enhancing Data Security and Trade Flexibility in NFT
Jiang Wu, Yanan Li, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
Õptimal Adaptively Secure Hash-based MVBA and Asynchronous Common Subset
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
Optimal Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus with Fair Separability
Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
On decoding extended Han-Zhang codes
Yang Li, Zhenliang Lu, San Ling, Shixin Zhu, Kwok Yan Lam
Lachesis: Analysis, Concerns, and Solutions
Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuchen Ye
Attacks against Proof-of-Stake Ethereum 2.0 in WAN
Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Xinrui Zhang
Patents
Systems and methods for establishing consensus in distributed communications
Xinlei Zhai, Qiang Tang, Zhenliang Lu, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang, Bingyong Guo
PCT Patent (International publication number: WO 2021/226846 A1)
Part of the research results of the JACOBI Blockchain Lab, sponsored by JD.comCommunication systems and methods for validation of a transaction via consensus in a distributed network environment
Xinlei Zhai, Qiang Tang, Zhenliang Lu, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang, Bingyong Guo
PCT Patent (International publication number: WO 2021/226843 A1)
Part of the research results of the JACOBI Blockchain Lab, sponsored by JD.comAsynchronous Blockchain Consensus Method And System With Decouped Date Broadcast And Consensus, Electronic Device And Storage Medium
Zhenfeng Zhang, Yuan Lu, Hao Cheng, Yingzi Gao, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu
PCT Patent (International publication number: WO 2023/174142 A1))
Awards
Best Paper Award, DSN Conference, 2025
Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, USYD, 2024
Faculty of Engineering Career Advancement Award, USYD, 2023
Provost Doctoral Fellowship, NJIT, 2017 and 2018
Services
Publicity and Social Media Chair at EAI BlockTEA 2022
Program Committee Member for:
AsiaCCS 2026, ACM CCS 2025 Poster/Demo, IEEE ICDLT 2025Journals Reviewer for:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Blockchain: Research and Applications
Theoretical Computer ScienceConferences Reviewer for:
Crypto 2024, Eurocrypt 2023, NDSS 2024/2023, USENIX Security 2024/2022, S&P 2023, CCS 2024/2022, AFT 2024, Asiacrypt 2022/2021/2020, Asiaccs 2022/2021, PKC 2021, ICDCS 2021, ICBC 2021, TrustCom 2020, CCSW 2020, ACISP 2019 etc.
Media Coverage
Dumbo protocols, together with classical ones including PBFT and HotStuff, are included in the reading list of consensus protocols of a16zcrypto.
Dumbo protocols were reported widely by media including CoinDesk, and leading Chinese media including Guangming Daily (光明日报), People's Daily Overseas Edition (人民日报海外版), China News Service (中国新闻网), ScienceNet (科学网), Xinhua News Agency (新华社), XINHUANET (新华网) and others.