Research

Our research aims to address the security, scalability, and incentive compatibility challenges of decentralized systems.

Select recent projects are:

• Prooφ: a transaction fee mechanism for ZK Rollups
• zkBridge: trustless cross-chain interoperability using SNARKs.
• Mempool Guru: an open public service that persists Ethereum mempool data for research.
• DECO: proving TLS data provenance while protecting privacy.

See the publication page for an up-to-date list of papers.

Members

Faculty

• Prof. Fan Zhang

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Mengqian Zhang (2023-, Postdoc Associate)
  • Recipient of Ethereum Academic Grant Round 2024
• Kaihua Qin (2023-, Affiliated Researcher; co-hosted with Prof. Zhong Shao)
• Aviv Yaish (2024-, Postdoc Associate; co-hosted with Profs. Ben Fisch, Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou, and Zhong Shao)

PhD students

• Lulu Zhou (2021-)
• Sarisht Wadhwa (2021-, co-advised with Kartik Nayak)
• Sen Yang (2022-)
• Giannis Kaklamanis (2023-)
• Wenhao Wang (2023-)
  • Recipient of ZK Fellowship from Matter Labs, Ethereum Foundation ZKGrant
• Yunhao Wang (2023-)

Undergrad Advisees

• Yuhang Cui (2024 Spring): A Blockchain-based Framework for Bug Bounty Programs in Genomics
• Andrew Wang (2023 Fall)
• Megha Joshi (2023 Spring)
• Justin Ye (2023 Spring)

Alums

• Yanxin Pang (intern, 2024)
• Fangyan Shi (intern, 2024)
• Yujie Lu (2022-2024, co-advised with Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou)1
• Rui Wang (MS student, 2023. Now PhD student at Purdue)
• Yixiao Wang (intern, 2023)
• Chengrui Fang (intern, 2023)
• Zhenyu Zhao (intern, 2023. Now PhD student at HKUST Crypto-Fintech Lab)
• Zerui Cheng (intern 2022. Now PhD student at Princeton)
• Shutong Qu (intern, 2022)
• Yuxuan Lu (intern 2021. Now PhD student at Peking University)

Teaching

See the teaching page for a list offered by DSG.

Acknowledgments

DSG is currently supported by the generous grants and gifts from: