Tong Cao 曹通

I was the lead researcher at Kunyao Academy from November 2021 to June 2023. I received my Ph.D. degree from University of Luxembourg in 2022, which was advised by Prof. PAULO ESTEVES-VERÍSSIMO, Dr. Jiangshan Yu, Dr. Jérémie Decouchant, and Dr. Marcus Völp. My Ph.D. Thesis (Analyzing the Privacy and Security of Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies) was nominated for the Excellent Thesis Award in University of Luxembourg. (Top 30 out of 139 theses between October 2021 and September 2022). I was an academic assistant (Hiwi) at Technical University of Munich in 2017.

News

• 2023.06  TBW attacks will appear at RAID 2023.

• 2023.05  We won two prizes in zkp hackathon, hosted by UC Berkeley RDI. 

• 2023.01  Dual Private Chain attack will appear at FC 2023.

• 2022.08  Received an RFP-X grant from Protocol Labs.

Publications

• Cao, Tong;  Xin, Li: Temporary Block Withholding Attacks on Filecoin's Expected Consensus. Cryptology ePrint Archive (2022). In: RAID 2023. 

• Cao, Tong; Decouchant, Jeremie; Yu, Jiangshan: Leveraging the Verifier's Dilemma to Double Spend in Bitcoin. In: Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2023.

• Cao, Tong; Decouchant, Jeremie; Yu, Jiangshan; Verissimo, Paulo: Characterizing the Impact of Network Delay on Bitcoin Mining. In: International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2021.

• Cao, Tong; Yu, Jiangshan; Decouchant, Jeremie; Luo, Xiapu; Verissimo, Paulo: Exploring the Monero Peer-to-Peer Network. In: Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2020. Patches of Monero's P2P network protocol in Github.

• Cao, Tong; Yu, Jiangshan; Decouchant,Jeremie; Verissimo, Paulo: Revisiting Network-Level Attacks on Blockchain Network. In: 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), workshop, 2018.

• Elattar, Mohammad; Cao, Tong; Wendt, Verena; Jasperneite, Jürgen; Trächtler, Ansgar: Reliable Multipath Communication Approach for Internet-based Cyberphysical Systems. In: 26th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2017.

Professional Activities

Program Committee Member for: IEEE Blockchain 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Conference External Reviewer for: DSN.

Journal Reviewer for: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,  FGCS, ...