Zhenliang Lu

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 (Authorship is in alphabetical order)

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (Authorship is in alphabetical order, except when the paper title is in italics)

Optimal Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus with Fair Separability
Vincent Gramoli, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Pouriya Zarbafian
Making Hash-based MVBA Great Again
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Tiancheng Mai, Qiang Tang
Near-Optimal Adaptively Secure Asynchronous Common Subset in Minicrypt
Hanwen Feng, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang
Jumbo: Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Truly Scalable
Hao Cheng, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang
Turritopsis: Asynchronous BFT Made Long-Lived with Dynamic Participation
Yingzi Gao, Yuan Lu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Yuyi Wang, Jing Xu
Optimistic Asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing
Bin Hu, Jianwei Liu, Zhenliang Lu, Qiang Tang, Zhuolun Xiang, Zongyang Zhang
Asynchronous Dynamic Committee Proactive Secret Sharing for Large Data
Zhenliang Lu, Tianyi Zhang, Alan Fekete, Kwok Yan Lam, Qiang Tang
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.com
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
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.