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Zhongtang Luo

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羅中瑭

Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

Institutional Email: luo401 [at] purdue [dot] edu
Personal Email: zhtluo [at] gmail [dot] com

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Bio

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in the Computer Science department at Purdue University, where I have been enrolled since 2021, under the guidance of Prof. Aniket Kate. I am a member of the Freedom Research Lab. Prior to this, I earned my M.S. at Purdue University. I completed my B.S. in the Zhiyuan ACM Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I studied from 2016 to 2020.

In my research, I look at how to make industry and academic work on cryptography, distributed systems, blockchains and applied security match up better, especially in how they handle efficiency and security. I've looked at things like consensus and data provenance. I see that companies focus on making their prototypes fast and efficient, while academia cares more about making sure these prototypes are formalized and secure. This difference creates a gap. My main question is: Can we find a way to make prototypes that are both fast and formalized?

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Competitive Programming

I am an active participant in competitive programming. I won a silver medal in ICPC 2018 World Finals with my wonderful teammates: Wenda Qiu and Boning Li.

A couple tutorials on certain subjects in CP:


CTF Write-up


Miscellaneous Projects

Projects not related to academia:


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