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Overview
I am a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, where I also completed my PhD in Computing. Before that, I obtained both my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Beihang University, China.
My research focuses on security, privacy, and trust in open and distributed systems. I work on building secure and privacy-preserving infrastructures for collaboration in settings where participants may be decentralized, rational, or untrusted. This spans distributed systems (e.g., blockchain), applied cryptography, and emerging AI and multi-agent systems, including empirical measurement, attack analysis, and secure protocol design.
My current research interests include:
- Security and privacy in distributed and decentralized systems
- Applied cryptography, including classical and post-quantum solutions
- Security, privacy, and trust in collaborative and agentic AI systems
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Computer Science, Imperial College London
Oct 2020 → May 2024
Award Date: 1 May 2024
External positions
Research Associate, Imperial College London
Jan 2024 → Jul 2025
Keywords
- Security
- Privacy
- Cryptography
- Decentralized System
- Blockchain & Distributed Ledgers
- Decentralized AI
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Lighthouse: Single-Server Secure Aggregation with O(1) Server-Committee Communication at Scale
Garg, S., Kavousi, A., Kolonelos, D., Tairi, E. & Wang, Z., 2026, USENIX Conference on Security Symposium.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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SoK: Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI (DeAI)
Lui, E., Sun, R., Shah, V., Xiong, X., Sun, J., Crapis, D., Knottenbelt, W. & Wang, Z., 2026, IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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AIArena: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI Training Platform
Wang, Z., Sun, R., Lui, E., Zhou, T., Wen, Y. & Sun, J., 23 May 2025, Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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A Transaction-Level Model for Blockchain Privacy
Wicht, F.-X. P., Wang, Z., Le, D. V. & Cachin, C., 2025, International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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DSKE: Digital Signatures with Key Extraction
Wang, Z., Alpos, O., Kavousi, A., Wong, H. W. H., Chau, S. Y., Le, D. V. & Cachin, C., 2025, Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review