Zhenliang Lu


Zhenliang Lu

Zhenliang Lu

Research Fellow (Postdoc)

Digital Trust Centre
Nanyang Technological University

E-mail: luzhenliang1992 [at] gmail.com

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About Me

I am currently a research fellow (postdoc) at Nanyang Technological University, working under the supervision of Prof. Kwok Yan Lam. Previously, I was a research officer (postdoc) at the University of Sydney, where I worked under the guidance of Prof. Qiang Tang and Prof. Vincent Gramoli. In August 2023, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, supervised by Dr. Qiang Tang. Before that, I was enrolled in the PhD program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology from September 2017 to January 2021. I earned both a master's and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hefei University of Technology in 2014 and 2017, respectively.


Research Interests

My research interests primarily focus on Blockchain, Consensus, Distributed Computing/Cryptography, Byzantine Storage, and Order Fairness.


Awards

  • Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, USYD, 2024

  • Faculty of Engineering Career Advancement Award, USYD, 2023

  • Provost Doctoral Fellowship, NJIT, 2017 and 2018


Publications (Per crypto community convention, authorship is in alphabetical order except for [11])

  1. Asynchronous Dynamic Committee Proactive Secret Sharing for Large Data
    Zhenliang Lu, Tianyi Zhang, Alan Fekete, Kwok Yan Lam, Qiang Tang
    ICDCS 2025 -- 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

  2. Faster Multi-valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Tiancheng Mai, Qiang Tang
    DSN 2025 -- 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

  3. 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 -- 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

  4. Resilience to Chain-Quality Attacks in Fair Separability
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
    ESORICS 2024 -- 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security

  5. AOAB: Optimal and Fair Ordering of Financial Transactions
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
    DSN 2024 -- 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

  6. Bolt-Dumbo Transformer: Asynchronous Consensus As Fast As the Pipelined BFT
    Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
    CCS 2022 -- 29th ACM Conference of Computer and Communication Security

  7. Dumbo-NG: Fast Asynchronous BFT Consensus with Throughput-Oblivious Latency
    Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
    CCS 2022 -- 29th ACM Conference of Computer and Communication Security

  8. Speeding Dumbo: Pushing Asynchronous BFT Closer to Practice
    Bingyong Guo, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
    NDSS 2022 -- The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

  9. Efficient Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement without Private Setups
    Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
    ICDCS 2022 -- 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

  10. Dumbo: Faster Asynchronous BFT Protocols
    Bingyong Guo, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Jing Xu, Zhenfeng Zhang
    CCS 2020 -- 27th ACM Conference of Computer and Communication Security

  11. Dumbo-MVBA: Optimal Multi-Valued Validated Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, Revisited
    Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Guiling Wang
    PODC 2020 -- 39th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing


Manuscripts (Per crypto community convention, authorship is in alphabetical order except for [3])

  1. Optimal Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus with Fair Separability
    Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian

  2. Optimal Byzantine Agreement in the Presence of Message Drops
    Hanwen Fen, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuchen Ye

  3. Õptimal Adaptively Secure Hash-based MVBA and Asynchronous Common Subset
    Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang

  4. Jumbo: Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Truly Scalable
    Hao Cheng, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang

  5. Turritopsis: Practical Dynamic Asynchronous BFT
    Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuyi Wang, Jing Xu

  6. Optimistic Asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing
    Bin Hu, Jianwei Liu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Zhuolun Xiang, Zongyang Zhang

  7. Enhancing Data Security and Trade Flexibility in NFT
    Jiang Wu, Yanan Li, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang

  8. Lachesis: Analysis, Concerns, and Solutions
    Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuchen Ye

  9. Attacks against Proof-of-Stake Ethereum 2.0 in WAN
    Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Xinrui Zhang


Patents

  1. 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.com

  2. Communication 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.com

  3. Asynchronous 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))


Services

  • Publicity and Social Media Chair at EAI BlockTEA 2022

  • Journals 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 Science

  • Conferences 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.