Qiang Tang

Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
The University of Sydney

Security Theme Lead
MathQuEST
ARC Centre of Excellence

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 crypto/security/distributed computing conferences (examples...).

News:

2026.5.   Our work of Morphic Accumulator and optimal range proofs, polynomial commitment etc will appear in CRYPTO 26, congrats Jiajun
2026.5.   Our work on CCA Lattice KEMs with Decryption Failures will appear in CRYPTO 26 , congrats Long
2026.5.   Our work on optimal hash ACS and MVBA will appear in CRYPTO 26, congrats Hanwen, Zhenliang!
2026.4.   Our work on sub-quadratic communication Balanced Async coin and ABA will appear in PODC 26, congrats Michael, Hanwen!
2026.4.   Our work of Anchor DKG is accepted to CCS 26, congrats Hanwen!
2026.3.   Our paper on Asynchronous Dynamic Proactive Secret Sharing was accepted to Oakland 26 .
2026.2.   We were awarded Stellar Research Award on "DKG for Federated Setting", with Aravind.
2026.2.   We were awarded IOG Research Grant on "Proof of Useful Work".
2025.12. Qiang will be leading the security theme of our ARC Center of Exellence MathQuEST.
2025.11. Host the visit of Dr. Moti Yung , and his Basser Seminar .
2025.10. We wrote an article on The Conversations on end to end secure online collaborations.
2025.10. Full version of our Computatinal Robust Extractor work is accepted to Journal of Cryptology. Congrats Hanwen.
2025.9.   Our work on near optimal Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration is accepted to Oakland 26 .
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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, and the security theme lead of ARC Center of Execellence (MathQuEST).

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.      
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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) Center of Excellence/Discovery, Google, Ethereum Foundaion, Cadarno, 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:

  • Postdocs:
  • Ph.D students:
    • Yuchen Ye
    • Omniyyah Ibrahim
    • Xinrui Zhang
    • Chengcong Hu (incoming from USTC)
    • Yaqing Song (incoming from UESTC)
    • Michael Mai (incoming from USYD)
    • Erin Kenney (NJIT, Co-advised with Prof. Chase Wu)
  • M.Phil. students:
    • Liejun Ma (incoming from Tsinghua)
    • Feiyang Liu
    • Quanhao Chen
  • Honors students: Numerous
  • Alumni, Visitors and Others: Numerous.

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