Short Bios
I am currently a research assistant professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), working with Prof. Yinqian Zhang. I received my Ph.D. degree from The University of British Columbia (UBC) in Sep. 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Chen Feng. My research fields include blockchain, distributed systems, and confidential computing.
Our research lab has multiple openings for Research Associates, Post-doctoral Researchers, Research/Software Engineers, Research Assistants, and Research Interns. If you are interested in working with me or any directions for our lab, please drop me or Prof. Zhang an email for more information.
News
- (2023/08)[Paper] Our works, Cumulus and Fast-HotStuff, have been accepted to IoTJ and TDSC, respectively.
- (2023/02)[Paper] Our paper, “SodsBC: A Practical Post-quantum by Design Asynchronous Blockchain Framework”, has been accepted to TDSC.
- (2022/10)[Paper] Our paper, “Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency with Quorum Certificate”, has been accepted to TDSC.
- (2022/08)[Paper] Our paper, “Narrator: Secure and Practical State Continuity for Trusted Execution in the Cloud”, has been accepted to CCS 2022.
- (2022/08)[Paper] Our paper, “ENGRAFT: Enclave-guarded Raft on Byzantine Faulty Nodes”, has been accepted to CCS 2022.
- (2022/08)[Paper] Our paper, “Scaling Blockchain Consensus via a Robust Shared Mempool”, has been accepted to ICDE 2023.
- (2022/04)[Paper] Our paper, “When Power-of-d-Choices Meets Priority”, has been accepted to IWQoS 2022.
- (2021/12)[Paper] Our paper, “Publish or Perish: Defending Withholding Attack in Dfinity Consensus”, has been selected as the best paper in MSN 2021.
Preprints
- Analysis of Nakamoto Consensus, Revisited [Paper] [Selected as “Paper of the Week” (Issue #31) by ZK Capital]
Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng, Hoang Dau, Yu-Chih Huang, Jingge Zhu - EBFT: Simplifying BFT Consensus Through Egalitarianism
Jianyu Niu, Runchao Han, Shengqi Liu, Fangyu Gai, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yinqian Zhang, Chen Feng
[One variant used in VeChain] [Paper] [Previous version selected as reading list by Stanford EE374] - An Empirical Study on Ethereum Private Transactions and the Security Implications [Paper]
Xingyu Lyu, Mengya Zhang, Xiaokuan Zhang, Jianyu Niu, Yinqian Zhang, Zhiqiang Lin
Conference Publications (*corresponding author, _ supervised students)
- [SecureComm’23] Byzantine Protocols with Asymptotically Optimal Communication Complexity
Hanzheng Lyu, Shaokang Xie, Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng
EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. - [ICDE’23] Scaling Blockchain Consensus via a Robust Shared Mempool
Fangyu Gai, Jianyu Niu*, Ivan Beschastnikh, Chen Feng, Sheng Wang
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering. - [CCS’22] Narrator: Secure and Practical State Continuity for Trusted Execution in the Cloud
Jianyu Niu, Wei Peng, Xiaokuan Zhang, Yinqian Zhang
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. - [CCS’22] ENGRAFT: Enclave-guarded Raft on Byzantine Faulty Nodes
Weili Wang, Sen Deng, Jianyu Niu, Michael K. Reiter, Yinqian Zhang
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. - [IWQoS’22] When Power-of-d-Choices Meets Priority
Jianyu Niu, Chunpu Wang, Hong Xu, Chen Feng
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, Virtual, Jun. 2022. - [MSN’21] Publish or Perish: Defending Withholding Attack in Dfinity Consensus (Best Paper Award)
Hanzheng Lyu, Jianyu Niu, Fangyu Gai, Chen Feng
IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, Virtual, Dec. 2021. - [ICDCS’21] Dissecting the Performance of Chained-BFT
Fangyu Gai, Ali Farahbakhsh, Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng, Ivan Beschastnikh, Hao Duan
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Virtual, Jul. 2021. - [INFOCOM’21] On the Performance of Pipelined HotStuff [Blogs]
Jianyu Niu, Fangyu Gai, Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai, Chen Feng
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Virtual, May. 2021. - [Performance’20] Incentive Analysis of Bitcoin-NG, Revisited
Jianyu Niu, Ziyu Wang, Fangyu Gai, Chen Feng
International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation, Virtual, Nov. 2020. - [ICDCS’19] Selfish Mining in Ethereum
Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Dallas, Texas, Jun. 2019.
Journal Publications
- [TDSC] Fast-Hotstuff: A Fast and Resilient Hotstuff Protocol [Paper] [Selected as reading list by Stanford EE374]
Mohammad Jalalzai, Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng, Fangyu Gai
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023. - [IoTJ] A Secure Sidechain for Decentralized Trading in Internet of Things
Fangyu Gai , Jianyu Niu*, Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Seyed Ali Tabatabaee, Chen Feng
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023. - [TDSC] SodsBC: A Practical Post-quantum by Design Asynchronous Blockchain Framework
Shlomi Dolev, Bingyong Guo, Jianyu Niu, Ziyu Wang (Alphabetically ordered)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023. - [TDSC] Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency with Quorum Certificate
Jianyu Niu, Fangyu Gai, Runchao Han, Ren Zhang, Yinqian Zhang, Chen Feng
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022. - [TDSC] The Hermes BFT for Blockchains
Mohammad Jalalzai, Chen Feng, Costas Busch, Golden, Richard III, Jianyu Niu
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021. - [PEVA] Incentive Analysis of Bitcoin-NG, Revisited
Jianyu Niu, Ziyu Wang, Fangyu Gai, Chen Feng
Elsevier journal Performance Evaluation （Fast tracked from Performance’20), 2020.
Professional Activities
Editorial Review Board
- International Journal of Blockchain Applications and Secure Computing (IJBASC)
Program Committee Member
- International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) 2021
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Communications Letters (CL), Exemplary Reviewers (2019)
- IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer (TOC)
Last updated: 2023/08.