Fan Zhang
Ph.D. in Computer ScienceCornell University
Cornell University
About Me
My research interest is in building secure systems that empower and protect their users from centralized infrastructure, by leveraging cryptography, blockchains, and trusted execution environments (TEEs). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, advised by Prof. Ari Juels.
Here are some projects I've been working on:
DECO: a novel privacy-preserving oracle protocol. Project website.
CHURP: a dynamic-membership proactive secret sharing scheme. Project website.
Town Crier: an authenticated data feed for smart contracts. Project website.
Recent News
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NEWJuly 2020: CanDID, our latest work on Decentralized Identity (DID) is available online.
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NEWMarch 2020: DECO accepted to CCS 2020!
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NEWJanuary 2020: Real World Crypto (RWC) video on DECO is now available online.
- October 2019: I visited ETH Zurich and presented "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World".
- October 2019: I presented Paralysis Proofs at ACM AFT 2019 at Zurich, Switzerland.
- September 2019: I visited IBM Waston Center and presented DECO (Decenetralized Oracles).
- September 2019: Two papers (CHURP, Tesseract) are accepted to ACM CCS'19! See you all in London!
- August 2019: "Paralysis Proofs: Secure Access-Structure Updates for Cryptocurrencies and More" is accepted to ACM AFT'19!
- April 2019: "Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contract Execution" is accepted to EuroS&P'19!
Media Coverage
- MIT Tech Review China reported on CHURP by MIT Tech Review China on Mar 27, 2019
- Blockchain smart contracts are finally good for something in the real world by MIT Tech Review on Nov 19, 2018
- Cornell's Town Crier Acquired By Chainlink To Expand Decentralized Oracle Network by Forbes on Nov 1, 2018
- Chainlink Blockchain Company Acquires Cornell’s Town Crier to Bolster Native Smart Contract Network by BitcoinExchangeGuide on Nov 2, 2018
- Chainlink Acquires Town Crier, a Hardware-Based Oracle by Unhashed on Nov 3, 2018
- Big Hitter Crypto Funds Pile Into Privacy-Enhanced Smart Contract Startup Oasis Labs by Forbes on Jul 9, 2018
- Cornell IC3 Researchers Propose Solution to Bitcoin's Multisig "Paralysis" Problem by BitcoinMagazine on Jan 19, 2018
- The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin by IEEE Spectrum on Sep 28, 2017
- Trust Your Oracle? Cornell Launches Tool for Confidential Blockchain Queries by CoinDesk on May 17, 2017
- How Encrypted Weather Data Could Help Corporate Blockchain Dreams Come True by MIT Technology Review on May 11, 2017
- Town Crier Service Delivers Solid Data To Coders by ETHNews on May 11, 2017