Tong Cao 曹通
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Distributed systems, consensus, network security.
Email: tong.cao@polyu.edu.hk ; tongcaodaniel@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5558-0474
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, ...