Chen-Da Liu Zhang
Lecturer/Researcher, HSLU
Research Scientist,
Web3 Foundation
About Me
I am a faculty member at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a Research Scientist at Web3 Foundation. Prior to that, I was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Laboratory at NTT Research and in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Prof. Vipul Goyal. I completed my Ph.D. in the Cryptography and Information Security group at ETH Zurich, where I was advised by Prof. Ueli Maurer. I hold a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich, and two bachelor degrees in computer science and mathematics from Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
My Research Interests
The goal of my research agenda is on building secure distributed systems. As such, my areas of expertise encompass both Cryptography and Distributed Computing. In particular, I am interested in multi-party computation, consensus, peer-to-peer networks, blockchain, provable composable security, and secure quantum computation. Some of the topics that I am currently working and/or worked on in the past include:
Asynchronous distributed protocols
Communication complexity of multi-party computation
Constructive Cryptography
Flooding Protocols for Blockchain
Multi-party computation with refined security guarantees, such as network-agnostic security
New security definitions for distributed protocols
Round and communication complexity of Byzantine agreement and consensus primitives
Secure quantum computation
Topology-hiding computation