Qiang Tang

Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
The University of Sydney

Phone: +61 2 9114 2199
Email: qiang.tang (at) sydney.edu.au

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If you are self-motivated and interested in doing a PhD or Postdoc in Cryptography and/or Blockchain, feel free to drop me an email with your CV. Particularly, if you already have paper at good security/crypto/distributed computing conferences (examples...).

News:

2025.6.   Our "decentralized onchain-offchain fair exchange" won Most Promising Paper Award in Crypto Valley Conf 25. Congrats Yuan!
2025.5.   Our first hash MVBA with optimal complexities won DSN'25 Best Paper Award.
2025.5.   Our work of asymptotically optimal asynchronous distributed randomness/key generation will appear in CRYPTO 25 , Congrats Hanwen.
2025.4.   Yuan will be talking about our work in the coming Paris Conf of AI and Digital Ethics.
2025.3.   Our work of End-to-end Encrypted Git Services is accepted CCS 25, Congrats Ya-Nan!
2025.3.   Our work of dynamically available DAG is accepted to Oakland 25 .
2024.12. Dumbo-MPC is accepted outright to USENIX Security 25, congratulations Yuan.
2024.11. We received a multi-year project with Google on End-to-End Secure Cloud and Online Collaboration.
2024.11. Our ARC DP (with Alan Fekete, Vincent Gramoli, & Christian Cachin) is funded on Order Fairness in Decentralized Systems.
2024.11. Yanan won USYD Faculty of Engineering Career Advancement Award, Congratulations!
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About Me:

I am currently an Associate Professor (Level D), at the School of Computer Science of The University of Sydney.

From 2021.1 -- 2024.12, I was a Senior Lecturer (equal to U.S Associate Professor) at USYD; from 2016.8 -- 2021.1, I was an assistant professor at computer science department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and co-directing the JACOBI Blockchain Lab with JD vice president Prof. Jian Pei , and ISCAS vice chief engineer, Prof. Zhenfeng Zhang. Prior to that, I was a postdoc at Cornell University, My host is Prof.
Elaine Shi.   Before joining Cornell, I received my PhD from the University of Connecticut under the supervision of Prof. Aggelos Kiayias and Prof. Alexander Russell.       A bit more...

Research Interests:


My research interests lie in applied & theoretical cryptography, blockchain technology, privacy and computer security. And it is currently supported by ARC (Australian Research Council), Google, Ethereum Foundaion, Stellar Foundation, Protocol Labs, Algorand Foundation, Oracle and USYD.

My research was previously also supported by NSF, JD.com, AFRL, Google, DoE, Protocol Labs, Particl Foundation, and NJIT .


Publications: DBLP, Google Scholar


Selected recent publications:
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Honors and Awards:

  • 2025, DSN Best Paper Award
  • 2024, ICDCS Distinguished Paper Award
  • 2023, SOAR Prize, USYD
  • 2023, Oracle for Research Award
  • 2022, Stellar Foundation Research Awards
  • 2022, Ethereum Academic Award
  • 2020, YWCC Research Award, NJIT
  • 2020, Member, Sigma Xi
  • 2019, MIT Technical Review, 35 Chinese Innovators Under 35
  • 2019, Google Faculty Research Award
  • 2016, Asiacrypt Conference Paper Award
  • 2015, Taylor Booth Fellowship

Teaching:

Visitors and Students:

  • Visitors: numerous
  • Postdocs:
  • Ph.D students:
    • Yanan Li
    • Tian Qiu
    • Yuchen Ye
    • Omniyyah Ibrahim
    • Erin Kenney (NJIT, Co-advised with Prof. Chase Wu)
    • Xinrui Zhang
  • M.Phil. students:
  • Honors students: Numerous
  • Alumni:
    • Zhen-Liang Lu (Ph.D. graduated 2023, now postdoc at Nanyang Technical University)
    • Long Chen (postdoc from 2018.7 -- 2021.6, now an associate professor at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Yuan Lu (Ph.D., graduated 2020, now an asssociate professor at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Keisuke Harada (Master, now Executive Director of SMBC)
    • Kunpeng Wang (visiting professor from Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Songlin He , now an associate professor at SWJTU.
    • Bo Pang (visiting Ph.D student from Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Riley Justus Vaughan (Honors, now at USYD Law School)
    • Nhi Nguyen (honors, now UNSW PhD)
    • .....
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Selected Professional Activities:

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Selected Media Coverage:

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Miscellaneous:

  • My Erdös number is 3 :-).
         Me → Nikos Leonardos → Michael Saks → Erdös
         Me → Alex Russell → Leonardo J. Schulman → Erdös
         Me → Moti Yung → Naga Alon → Erdös