Research Interests

• Blockchain Infrastructure (Layer1 and Layer2  Protocols)

• Protocol Design and Security Issues of Web3 and DeFi

• Distributed Systems and Computing

Experience

• • 2019~: Associate Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University (China)

  • April.2018~2019: Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Kyoto University (Japan)

  • May.2017~March.2018: Post-doc visiting scholar, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • April.2016~March.2018: JSPS Research Fellow, University of Aizu (Japan)

Teaching

• • 2022 ~ present: Web3 and Metaverse, undergraduate course, Code: SSE1001

  • 2022 ~ present: Blockchain Principles and Technologies, undergraduate/graduate course, Code: DCS6290, SSE311

  • 2020 ~ present: Experimental Courses of Blockchain Technologies, undergraduate course, Code: SSE313

  • 2019 ~ present: Writing Skills for Scientific Papers, (teaching in English), undergraduate/graduate courses, Code: SSE336

Projects

• • At SYSU, I focus on several research projects on blockchain Layer1 and Layer2, Web3/Metaverse Protocols, and Distributed Computing/Protocols.

  • At Kyoto University, I was in charge of promoting a Horizon2020 EU-Japan joint research project:

    • ACCRA: Agile Co-Creation of Robots for Ageing

Editor, Guest Editor

• • Editorial Board Member

    1. MDPI Journal of Blockchains (ISSN: 2813-5288), Editorial Board [Editorial Board]

    2. International Journal of Web Information Systems (ISSN: 1744-0084), Editorial Advisory Board [Editorial Board]

    3. Transactions on Emerging Telecom. Technologies (Wiley), Editorial Board [Editorial Board]

    4. Blockchain (ELSP), Youth Editorial Board Member

  • Guest Editor

    1. (Lead GE) Blockchain (ELSP), special issue on "Blockchains Infrastructure for Web3: Technologies, Tools, and Applications"  [URL]

    2. (Lead GE) IEEE JSAC special issue on Intelligent Blockchain. [URL] (closed)

    3. (Lead GE) IEEE OJ-CS Special Issue on Fusing Blockchain and AI with Metaverse: Technologies, Trends, and Applications [CFP] (closed)

    4. IEEE OJ-CS Special Issue on Blockchain Intelligence: Technologies and Applications. [URL] (closed)

Chairing Conferences & Workshops

• • TPC

    1. IEEE ICDCS 2024, TPC Member, Blockchain Track, and Industrial and Interdisciplinary Studies of Distributed Systems and Applications Track [URL]

  • Conference Chair

    1. 2024, BlockSys 2024, program chair

    2. 2024, IEEE Global Blockchain Conference 2024, Track co-chair, Track5: Integration of Blockchain, Data Elements & AI [URL]

    3. 2023, Executive Programming Chair of IEEE ICWS 2023 [URL]

    4. 2023, IEEE SERVICES 2023 Congress Advisory Program Chair [URL]

    5. 2021, The inaugural IEEE Symposium on Blockchain at IEEE SERVICES 2021 [URL]

    6. IEEE iThings 2022 Workshop on Integrating metaverse with blockchain and 6G for next-generation IoT

    7. IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Workshop on Scalable, Secure and Intelligent Blockchain for Future Networking and Communications

    8.  IEEE Symposium on Blockchain at SERVICES 2021. 

    9. GLOBECOM'2021 Workshop on Blockchain (WS-02: WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE, SECURE AND INTELLIGENT BLOCKCHAIN FOR FUTURE NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS) [URL]

    10. ICC'2022 Workshop on Blockchain (WS-10: WORKSHOP ON SCALABLE, SECURE AND INTELLIGENT BLOCKCHAIN FOR FUTURE NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS) [URL]

  • Session Chair

    1. IEEE SERVICES 2021, SMDS2: Smart Data Management [URL] 

    2. IEEE SERVICES 2021, BLK 1: Invited Talks [URL]

    3. IEEE JCC 2020, Session 2: Distributed Machine Learning

    4. ICC-2018, SAC-CCN.04 Safety, Security, and Privacy

Awards and Honors

• • • Dec. 2023: 2022 Best Paper Award, from IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS).

    • Oct. 2023: Dr. Huawei Huang has been recognized in the World Ranking of the Top 2% of Scientists (October 2023).

    • Jan. 2023: Sun Yat-sen University has recognized Dr. Huawei Huang as an outstanding young scientist.

    • Dec. 2022: 2021 Best Paper Award (runner-up), from IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS).

    • Aug. 2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE TrustCom2016

    • Apr. 2016 ~ Mar. 2018: JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists

• • • Oct. 2013 ~ Mar. 2016: Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Foreign Students

    • Jan. 2015: 2014 IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award

Funding and Grants

      A. Research Funds as PI

• 1. NSFC General Program, Blockchain scalability, FY2023-2026, PI

  2. National Key & Dev. Program of China, Blockchain scalability, FY2022-2025, Co-PI

  3. CCF-Huawei Industrial Project, Blockchain's scalability, FY2022-2023, PI

  4. National Key & Dev. Program of China, Federated Learning topic, FY2021-2023, Co-PI

  5. NSFC of Young Scientist Program, Edge Computing topic, FY2020-2022, PI

  6. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China, FY2019-2021, PI

  7. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, FY2019-2022, PI

  8. Kyoto University Research Fund for Young Scientists (Start-up) FY 2018, Detail: (京都大学若手研究者スタートアップ研究費), JPY ¥830K.

  9. JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows)

• 10. JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists 

      B. Other Grants

Books 

• Huawei Huang, Jiajing Wu, Zibin Zheng, (2023), “From Blockchain to Web3 & Metaverse,” Springer, August 2023. ISBN 978-981-99-3647-2.

• Wuhui Chen, Zibin Zheng, Huawei Huang (2023), “Blockchain Scalability,” Springer, June 2023. ISBN 978-981-99-1058-8.

• 黄华威，杨青林、林建入、郑子彬，《从区块链到 Web3》，人民邮电出版社，2023年12月出版.

Selected Publications: (* represents the corresponding author)

2025:

• Jian Zheng (郑简，博士生), Huawei Huang* (黄华威, corresponding author), Yinqiu Liu, Taotao Li, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng, “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2025, London UK. (CCF-A, Top-tier Conference) [公众号文章介绍]

2024:

• Huawei Huang (黄华威), Yue Lin (林岳, 硕士生), Zibin Zheng*, “Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 20–23 May 2024, Vancouver, Canada. (CCF-A, Top-tier Conference) [公众号文章介绍]

• Qinde Chen (陈钦德, 博士生), Huawei Huang* (黄华威), Zhaokang Yin (殷昭伉), Guang Ye (叶光), Qinglin Yang (杨青林), “Broker2Earn: Towards Maximizing Broker Revenue and System Liquidity for Sharded Blockchains,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 20–23 May 2024, Vancouver, Canada. (CCF-A, Top-tier Conference) [论文介绍-知乎专栏文章]

2023:

• Huawei Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Yue Lin, Miaoyong Xu, Guang Ye, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Sharded Blockchain,” IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet), vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 3284-3299, 2023. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [ PDF ] [公众号介绍文章]

• Jian Zheng, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Adaptive Double-Spending Attacks on PoW-based Blockchains,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Apr. 20, 2023, pp.1-13. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [ PDF ] [ 论文介绍 ]

• Huawei Huang, Yetong Zhao, Zibin Zheng*, “tMPT: Reconfiguration across Blockchain Shards via Trimmed Merkle Patricia Trie,” IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2023. [ PDF ] [ 论文介绍 ]

2022:

• Huawei Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Jianzhou Zhan, Shenyang Zhang, Yue Lin, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding,” INFOCOM, May 2022.  (CCF-A, Top-tier conference in the field of Computer Networking)  [PDF]

• Huawei Huang, Zhengyu Yue, Xiaowen Peng, Liuding He, Wuhui Chen, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, "Elastic Resource Allocation against Imbalanced Transaction Assignments in Sharding-based Permissioned Blockchains", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 10, pp.2372 –2385, Oct. 2022.  (Top-tier journal in the field of Distributed Computing and Systems) (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal) [PDF]

• Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Yetong Zhao, Xiaowen Peng, Ruijie Yang, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards for State Sharding,” the 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2022.  [PDF]

• Huawei Huang, Ruixin Li, Jialiang Liu, Sicong Zhou, Kangying Lin, Zibin Zheng, “ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022.  (Top-tier conference in the field of Distributed Computing and Systems) [PDF], [Video]

2021:

• • Huawei Huang, Zhenyi Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “MVCom: Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Large-Scale Sharded Blockchain,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021.  (分布式计算领域顶会 / Top-tier conference in the field of Distributed Computing Systems) [PDF][Slides]

  • Jian Zheng, Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Revisiting Double-Spending Attacks on the Bitcoin Blockchain: New Findings,” IWQoS 2021. [PDF][Slides]

  • Huawei Huang, Wei Kong, Sicong Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools,” ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 54, no. 2, March 2021

2020:

• • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Kun Wang, and Yasuo Okabe, "Coflow-like Online Data Acquisition from Low-Earth-Orbit Datacenters", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume: 19, Issue: 12, pp.2743 – 2760, Dec 1st, 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2019.2936202) [PDF] [RG-Page]

  • Sizong Zhou, Huawei Huang*, Wuhui Chen, Pan Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “PIRATE: A Blockchain-based Secure Framework of Distributed Machine Learning in 5G Networks“, IEEE Network, 2020. [PDF]

  • Qiheng Zhou, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, and Jing Bian, “Solutions to Scalability of Blockchain: A Survey”, IEEE Access, vol.8, no.1, pp.16440-16455, 2020. [PDF], ESI highly cited paper.

  • Huakun Huang, Lingjun Zhao, Huawei Huang*, Song Guo, "Machine Fault Detection for Intelligent Self-Driving Networks", accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 58, Issue No. 1, pp. 40-46, January 2020. DOI:10.1109/MCOM.001.1900283 [PDF] [RG-Page]

2019:

• • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Kun Wang, and Albert Y. Zomaya, " Green Data-Collection from Geo-distributed IoT Networks through Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN) , vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 806-816, September 2019. [PDF]

  • Huawei Huang, and Song Guo, “Proactive Failure Recovery for NFV in Distributed Edge Computing", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 131-137,  March 2019, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2019.1701366. [PDF]

2018:

• • Jinsong Wu, Song Guo, Huawei Huang, William Liu and Yong Xiang, “Information and Communications Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: State-of-the-Art, Needs and Perspectives”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2389-2406, 2018.

  • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Kun Wang, “Envisioned Wireless Big Data Storage for Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite based Cloud", IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 26-31, February 2018.

  • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, and Kun Wang, "Online Green Data Gathering from Geo-distributed IoT Networks via LEO Satellites", IEEE ICC2018, Kansas City, MO, May, 2018 (Slides)

Before 2018:

• • [1] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Keqiu Li, Baoliu Ye and Weihua Zhuang, "Near-Optimal Routing Protection for In-Band Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 7421-7432, October 2016. (PDF)

  • [2] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Weifa Liang and Albert Y. Zomaya, “Cost Minimization for Rule Caching in Software Defined Networking”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1007-1016, April 2016. (PDF)

  • [3] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Baoliu Ye and Ivan Stojmenovic, “Joint Optimization of Rule Placement and Traffic Engineering for QoS Provisioning in Software Defined Network”, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3488-3499, Dec. 2015. (PDF)

  • [4] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Jinsong Wu and Jie Li, “Service Chaining for Hybrid Network Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1082-1094, Oct-Dec 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2017.2721401 (PDF)

  • [5] Huawei Huang, Peng Li, Song Guo, Weifa Liang and Kun Wang, “Near-Optimal Deployment of Service Chains by Exploiting Correlations between Network Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2017, In Press, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2017.2780165 (PDF)