Jiangshan Yu

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Dr. Jiangshan Yu (于江山)

Associate Professor
Director, Sydney Blockchain Centre
Director, University Collaboration
Elected Member, IFIP Working Group 10.4
Australian Representative, IFIP TC 10

About Me

I'm an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, serving as the Director of University Collaboration and the Director of the Sydney Blockchain Centre. I'm the Australian Representative for International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 10 on Computer Systems Technology, elected by the Australian Computer Society (ACS). I'm an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

I'm a recipient of multiple awards recognising my research contributions, including the IEEE TEMS Technical Achievement Award (2024), ARC DECRA Fellowship (2021), IBM Academic Award (2020), and several Best Paper Awards, among others. I have served as Chief Investigator on research projects totaling over 10 million dollars. I serve on the program committees of top-tier dependability and blockchain conferences, including ACM CCS, USENIX Security, USENIX ATC, VLDB, DSN, ICDCS, FC, and AFT. Additionally, I am an Associate Editor for journals including ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies (ACM DLT).

My Journey

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham (UK), supervised by Prof. Mark Ryan, followed by a postdoc with Prof. Paulo Esteves-Verissimo (IEEE and ACM Fellow) at SnT, University of Luxembourg. Before joining the University of Sydney, I held positions as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, where I served as Research Director of the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre, and was elected as a 2023 Monash Research Talent Accelerator (RTA) Fellow.

What I Work On

My research addresses real-world challenges in building practical systems that prioritise dependability, trust, security, privacy, and scalability. I design robust, high-performance digital infrastructures by leveraging dependable computing, decentralised systems, cryptography, and security protocols.

Impact

My research has advanced the resilience and performance of blockchain systems and services, with findings adopted by major blockchains such as Ethereum, Monero, Nervos, and NEO. I have also developed security protocols adopted by exchanges and wallet services to better protect their user assets. Beyond industry impact, my work has supported governments in advancing digital transformation and cybercrime investigations, contributing to research-informed policy-making in practice.

[2025-08] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ACM CCS'26.

[2025-08] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for USENIX Security'26.

[2025-06] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for FC'26.

[2025-03] Our paper, "Posterior Security: Anonymity and Message Hiding of Standard Signatures", has been accepted to ACM CCS 2025! Addressing a critical unmet requirement in the CBDC architecture jointly proposed by the Bank for International Settlements and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, we introduce the notion of posterior security, enabling anonymity and message hiding for standard signatures — with applications to CBDC, trusted hardware–based digital wallets, and beyond.

[2025-03] Our work on "Mosaic: Client-driven account allocation framework in sharded blockchains" has been accepted by IEEE ICDCS’25! Congrats Yuanzhe!

[2025-03] Our work on "Constant latency and finality for dynamically available DAG" has been accepted by IEEE S&P’25! Congrats Hans!

[2025-02] I'm delighted to receive IEEE Technical Achievement Award by IEEE TEMS TC on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies.

[2025-01] Our work on "Achilles" has been accepted by EuroSys’25 ! Building on our Damysus consensus protocol (EuroSys'22), it takes an important first step toward addressing rollback issues in TEE-empowered hybrid BFT protocols.

[2024-11] Our work on Juno, which proposes the concept of aggregated vector consensus, has received the Best Paper Award at IEEE PRDC! Congrats Liangrong!

[2024-10] I'm delighted to serve on the PC for ACM CCS'25.

[2024-10] I'm delighted to serve on the PC for The 2025 ACM Web Conference (WWW'25) .

[2024-09] I'm delighted to be elected as Australian Representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 10 on Computer Systems Technology.

[2024-09] Our works on blockchain consensus have been accepted for publication at ACSAC'24 and PRDC'24'. Well done Liangrong!

[2024-07] Our paper on NFT Wash Trading has received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (announcement at Internetware'24)!

[2024-07] I'm delighted to serve on the PC for USENIX ATC'25.

[2024-06] I'm delighted to serve as a Keynote Speaker at The 29th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (IEEE PRDC'24).

[2024-04] Our paper on "Modeling Mobile Crash in Byzantine Consensus" has been accepted for publication at CSF'24. Well done Hans Schmiedel!

[2024-03] I'm delighted to serve as a Keynote Speaker at The 6th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (ACM BSCI'24).

[2024-03] I'm delighted to serve as a Keynote Speaker at the 8th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT'24).

[2024-03] I'm delighted to serve on the PC (ERC) for USENIX ATC'24.

[2024-03] I'm delighted to serve on the Communication and Outreach Committee for IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

[2024-03] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for DSN'25.

[2024-02] I'm delighted to serve as a committee member for the selection of The Test Of Time Award for DSN 2024.

[2024-01] I'm delighted to serve as Associate Editor for ACM DLT.

[2023-12] I'm thrilled to announce my next chapter as Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.

[2023-12] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for CCS'24.

[2023-12] Our paper on "OneShot: View-Adapting Streamlined BFT with TEEs" has been accepted for publication at IPDPS'24.

[2023-12] Our response to a recent EuroSys23 paper (Gupta et al.) is now out! Our paper is titled: "Vivisecting the Dissection: On the Role of Trusted Components in BFT Protocols".

[2023-04] My paper on "Fault Independence in Blockchain" has been accepted for publication at Disrupt Track of DSN'23!

[2023-03] Our paper on "Analyzing the Performance of the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol" has been accepted for publication at DSN'23, congrats Joao!

[2023-02] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for VLDB'24.

[2023-02] I'm delighted to serve as a Chair for ACE Working Group on Sustainability and Social Impact. ACE working groups are established as a joint force consisting of field experts from the ten global Algorand Centres of Excellence.

[2023-02] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ConsensusDay'23 . Please submit your good works!

[2023-01] Two papers accepted at FC'23, congrats Runchao Han and Tong Cao!

[2022-12] Our survey on DAG-based Blockchains has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.

[2022-12] Our work on "BlindHub: Bitcoin-Compatible Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Hubs Supporting Variable Amounts" has been accepted for publication at IEEE S&P'23!

[2022-12] Our work on blockchain for education received best paper award at NSS'22. Congrats Zoey!

[2022-11] Our work on "TxAllo: Dynamic Transaction Allocation in Sharded Blockchain Systems” has been accepted by ICDE’23! Congrats Yuanzhe!

[2022-11] Our survey on Exotic Signatures for Post-Quantum Blockchain has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.

[2022-10] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ICDCS'23!

[2022-08] Congrats Zoey Ziyi for receiving Best Paper Award at Blockchain'22 !

[2022-08] Our Monash Blockchain Technology Centre received US$6 Million award for Algorand Center of Excellence, where I will lead research activities to work with our excellent partners from 9 Universities and research organisations!

[2022-07] Our work on "Analysing and Improving Shard Allocation Protocols for Sharded Blockchains” has been accepted by AFT’22! Congrats Runchao!

[2022-06] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for DSN'23!

[2022-04] Our work on "MoNet: Making Monero as Fast as Lightning” has been accepted by ICDCS’22! Congrats Zhimei!

[2022-02] Our work on "AuxChannel: Enabling Efficient Bi-Directional Channel for Scriptless Blockchains” has been accepted by AsiaCCS’22! Congrats Zhimei!

[2022-01] I'm thrilled and honored to be elected as a member of the privileged IFIP 10.4 Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance!

[2022-01] Our work on "DAMYSUS: Streamlined BFT Consensus Leveraging Trusted Components” has been accepted by EuroSys’22!

[2022-01] Our project on "Scalable & Accountable Privacy-Preserving Blockchain with Enhanced Security" has been awarded by Australian Research Council as a Discovery Project (ARC DP).

[2021-12] Our work "A Bytecode-based Approach for Smart Contract Classification" has been accepted by SANER'22. Congrats Chaochen!

[2021-10] Congrats Shange for receiving Best Paper Award at Blockchain'21 on her work !

[2021-09] Our work on "General Congestion Attack on HTLC-Based Payment Channel Networks" has been accepted by Tokenomics2021. Congrats to Zhichun and Runchao!

[2021-06] Our work on "Characterizing the Impact of Network Delay on Bitcoin Mining" has been accepted by The 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'21) .

[2021-06] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for DSN'22.

[2021-03] I'm delighted to serve as one of the Publicity Chairs for IEEE Blockchain 2021 and GreenCom'21.

[2021-02] Three papers (on the topic of blockchain interoperability and on analysing blockchain privacy) have been accepted by ICBC'21.

[2021-02] Our paper on analysing 51% attacks in the wild is accepted by AsiaCCS'21 .

[2021-01] Our paper "FPPW: A Fair and Privacy Preserving Watchtower For Bitcoin" is accepted for publication at FC'21.

[2021-01] Our paper "CoopEdge: A Decentralized Blockchain-based Platform for Cooperative Edge Computing" is accepted for publication at WWW'21.

[2021-01] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for FAB'21.

[2020-11] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ICDCS'21.

[2020-11] I'm delighted to be selected for a 2021 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to support my research on blockchain for the next three years!

[2020-10] I'm delighted to be selected for a 2020 IBM Academic Award. This is covered by Monash News and Crypto News.

[2020-07] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ICBC'21.

[2020-06] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for FC'21.

[2020-06] Our paper "How to Democratise and Protect AI: Fair and Differentially Private Decentralised Deep Learning" is accepted for publication at IEEE TDSC.

[2020-05] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for DSN'21.

[2020-05] Our paper "Towards Fair and Privacy-Preserving Federated Deep Models" is accepted for publication at IEEE TPDS.

[2020-02] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for AFT'20 and SRDS'20.

[2020-01] Two papers accepted at FC'20. Well done Tong Cao and Qin Wang!

[2019-11] I'm delighted to serve as a PC member for ICDCS'20.

[2019-08-22] I'm very proud to receive the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact!

[2019-07] Our paper "On the optionality and fairness of Atomic Swaps" has been accepted by ACM Advances in Financial Technology (AFT).

[2019-06] Our paper on Privacy-Preserving Live Streaming has been accepted by SRDS'19.

[2019-04] I'd been nominated and selected as a finalist (Technology Application) for Endeavour Awards, which is Australia's Premier Awards Program within the manufacturing industry.

[2019-04] Our two papers on blockchain transaction untraceability have been accepted by CSF'19 and AsiaCCS'19.

[2019-03] RepuCoin has been covered by over 60 news media globally including our Monash News, Finder, 今日头条(Toutiao), ZDNet, Sohu, BTC Wires, ScienceDaily, Ethereum World News, EurekAlert!, The US Breaking news, Homeland Security Today, etc.

[2019-01] Our paper "RepuCoin: Your Reputation is Your Power" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC).

[2018-12] Our paper "ANCHOR: logically-centralized security for Software-Defined Networks" has been accepted for publication by ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (ACM TOPS, previously known as ACM TISSEC.)

[2018-11] I'm delighted to be invited to attend the 75th Meeting of the IFIP WG 10.4 Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

[2018-11] A paper on "New Empirical Traceability Analysis of CryptoNote-Style Blockchains" has been accepted by Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2019 (FC19, 33/178=18.5%).

[2018-07] As co-chair, I'm delighted to see the 74th Meeting of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Blockchain has been very successful. All the material will be available at here.

[2018-05] CHARITY. Prof. Mark Ryan's Supporting for Aframano, a village in Ghana, Africa. See more detail at markryan.eu/aframano

[2017-10] Interviewed by Eldo Radio to explain end-to-end encryption in messaging and DECIM.

[2017-10] DECIM has been covered by dozens of international news media, such as Science Daily. The news was originally published by the University of Luxembourg (link) and the University of Birmingham (link).

[2017-06] A paper on "DECIM: Detecting Endpoint Compromise In Messaging" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS), 2017.

[2017-05] A paper on "Authenticating compromisable storage systems" has been accepted by the 16^th IEEE TrustCom, 2017.

[2017-04] I have been awarded for the ``Chinese Government Award for outstanding PhD scholar abroad''. The success rate is 3% in UK and 1% worldwide. Here is the news press.

[2017-04] A paper on "Automatically Detecting the Misuse of Secrets: Foundations, Design Principles, and Applications" has been accepted by the 30^th IEEE CSF, 2017.

My Team

PhD students:

Main supervision

Xiangwen Yang (July 2024-), The University of Sydney.
Zhichun Lu (July 2024-), The University of Sydney.
Hans Schmiedel (Nov. 2021-), The University of Sydney.
Yuanzhe Zhang (June 2021-), The University of Sydney.
Liangrong Zhao (March 2021-), Monash University.

Co-supervision

Yuexin Xiang (Jan. 2024-), Monash University.
Brian Chen (Sept. 2023-), Monash University.
Dongkun Hou (May. 2023-), Monash University.
Jun Zhao (May. 2022-), Monash University.

Alums:

Postdoc

Diego Kreutz (2023), Monash University.
(First job: Professor at Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil.)

PhD

Peter Ince (2021-2025), Monash University.
(First job: Founder, Sigil Labs.)
Zoey Ziyi Li (2021-2024), Monash University.
(First job: Lecturer, University of Melbourne.)
Sina Aeeneh (2020-2024), Monash University.
(First job: Engineer, V/Line.)
Shange Fu (2019-2024), Monash University.
(First job: Head of Research, APRO Research)
Joao Otavio Massari Chervinski (2019-2023), Monash University.
(First job: Researcher at Informal Systems.)
Chaochen Shi (2020-2023), Deakin University.
(First job: Postdoc at HK Poly University.)
Zhimei Sui (2019-2023), Monash University.
(First job: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University.)
Arash Mirzaei (2019-2023), Monash University.
(First job: Postdoc at ANU.)
Runchao Han (2019-2022), Monash University.
(First job: Senior Research Engineer@Babylon.)
Jiachi Chen (2019-2022), Monash University.
(First job: Assistant Professor@Sun Yat-Sen University)
Tong Cao (2018-2021), University of Luxembourg.
(First job: Lead researcher at Kunyao Academy.)

Master (minor thesis)

Ran An (2019), "Analysis of stablecoins in blockchain", Monash University. (Co-supervised with Joseph Liu). (Followed by a PhD study at Monash University.)
Xinyu Zhang (2019), "Revocable ring signature", Monash University. (Co-supervised with Joseph Liu). (Followed by a PhD study at Monash University.)
Shaocong Yu (2019), "Traceability analysis of Monero using machine learning technology", Monash University. (Co-supervised with Joseph Liu and Lan Du).
Jun Zhao (2019), "Consolidating Hash Power in Blockchain Shards with a Forest", Monash University. (Co-supervised with Joseph Liu). (Followed by a PhD study at Monash University.)
Pranav Kulkarni (2020), "Exploring energy-efficient RepuCoin", Monash University. (Followed by a PhD study at Monash University.)
Lianyang Yu (2020), "Game theoretic analysis on reputation concept in blockchain security", Monash University. (Followed by a PhD study at The University of Queensland.)
Yu Xia (2020), "Formal analysis and verification of the RepuCoin system", Monash University. (Co-supervised with Vincent Rahli.) (Followed by a PhD study at The University of Edinburgh.)

Visitors:

I'm so fortunate to have the following colleagues visiting my team for collaboration:

Paulo Verissimo (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow), Professor and FNR PEARL Chair at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
(Nov.2019-Dec.2019)
Evgenia Smirni (IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist) , Sidney P. Chockley Professor at College of William and Mary, US.
(Jan.2020-March.2020)

GRANT & AWARDS

Grant, Awards, and scholarships:

Awards:
- IEEE Technical Achievement Award, issued by the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, 2024.
- Best Paper Award at PRDC 2024.
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, announcement at Internetware'24.
- Research Talent Accelerator Award, Monash University, 2023.
- Best Paper Award at NSS 2022.
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council (ARC), 2021.
- Best Paper Award at Blockchain 2021 and Blockchain 2022.
- IBM Academic Award, 2020. (Covered by Monash News and Crypto News.)
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact , Monash university, 2019.
- Finalist (Technology Application) for Endeavour Awards, Premier Awards Program (Manufacturing Industry), Australia, 2019.
- Chinese Government Award For Outstanding PhD Scholar Abroad, 2016. (3% in UK, 1% worldwide.)
- Finalist for RAEng Enterprise Fellowship , Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), UK. 2015.

Selected Recent Grant:
Chief Investigator (CI) in Australia is also known as Principle Investigator (PI) in Europe/US.
- [2022-2027] Algorand Centre of Excellence. "Sustainability Informatics for the Pacific", A$8.68M. [Lead CI on the Research Cluster, Deputy Director of the Centre.]
- [2022-2024] ARC Discovery DP220101234. "Scalable & Accountable Privacy-Preserving Blockchain with Enhanced Security", A$330,000. [Co-CI]
- [2021-2023] ARC DECRA DE210100019. A Scalable and Adaptive-Resilient Blockchain, $563,000. [Sole CI]
- [2021-2022] Oceania Cyber Security Centre. "Scientific Support for Tuvalu’s National Digital Ledger Project", $14,967. [CI]
- [2021-2022] AgriFutures Australia. "Solutions and barriers in AgriFutures-levied small and emerging industries", $184,625.00. [CI]
- [2022–2022] Building 4.0 CRC. "Automated tracking of construction materials for improved supply chain logistics and provenance", $175, 000. [CI]
- [2021–2022] Industry Research Contract. "To Develop a Sustainable and Green Blockchain Consensus", $500,625. [Lead CI]
- [2020-2030] Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program, "Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 (RACE for 2030)", $349M. [CI, Monash Champion]

SERVICES

Service:

Membership and direction of organisations:

[2025-present] Director of University Collaboration, The University of Sydney.
[2024-present] Director of Sydney Blockchain Centre, The University of Sydney.
[2024-present] ACS Australian Representative, IFIP Technical Committee 10 on Computer Systems Technology.
[2024-present] Member, Communication and Outreach Committee, IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
[2025] Member, Selection Committee, Carter Award, DSN 2025.
[2024] Member, Selection Committee, Test Of Time Award, DSN 2024.
[2024] Member, Selection Committee, Jean-Claude Laprie (JCL) Award, IFIP WG 10.4.
[2023-2024] Chair, ACE Working Group on Sustainability and Social Impact.
[2022-present] Elected Member, IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
[2021-present] Scientific Advisory Board, Austrian Blockchain Center, Austria.
[2020–2024] Research Director, Monash Blockchain Technology Centre.

Journal editorship:

[2024-present] Associate Editor, ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT).
[2024] Guest Editor, Blockchain: Research and Application, Special Issue title: “Unleashing the Potential: Advancements and Innovations in Blockchain Technology”.
[2024] Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine , Special Issue title: “IoT Security and Provisioning in Cyber-Enabled Niche Critical Infrastructure”.
[2023-present] Associate Editor, International Journal of Blockchain Applications and Secure Computing (IJBASC)

Conference (Co-)Chair (Selected recent activities)

Demo Chair. The 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2026.
Track Chair. The 1st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Ledger Technologies (ICDLT), 2025.
Publicity Co-Chair. The 54th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2024
PC Co-Chair and General Co-Chair, 83rd Meeting of the IFIP WG 10.4 - the Future of Blockchains, 2023.
PC Co-Chair, Workshop on Blockchain Security, Application, and Performance (BSAP), IEEE Blockchain 2021.
PC Co-Chair, 74th Meeting of the IFIP WG 10.4 - Technological and societal challenges to blockchain dependability and security, 2018.
PC Co-Chair, Workshop on BlockChain , Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2015.

Conference Program Committee Member (Selected recent activities)

2026

The 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
The 30th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)

2025

The 50th USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC)
The 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
The 34th ACM Web Conference (WWW)
The 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)

2024

The 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
The 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
The 49th USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) (ERC)

2023

The 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
The 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
ConsensusDay

2022

The 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)
The 5th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB)
The 4th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN)

2021

The 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
The 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
The 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)
The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
The 4th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)
EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications (BlockTEA)

2020

The 2nd ACM Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT)
The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
The 39th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)