Zhongtang Luo (How to Read: Zone-Tan Lowe) 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 Twitter       Codeforces       CV

Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in the CS department of Purdue since 2021. My advisor is Prof. Aniket Kate. I am a member of the Freedom Research Lab. My research interest converges on applied cryptography, distributed system security, and blockchain.

Publications

• Attacking and Improving the Tor Directory Protocol [IEEE SP'24] [Preprint]
  Zhongtang Luo, Adithya Bhat, Kartik Nayak, Aniket Kate
• Last Mile of Blockchains: RPC and Node-as-a-service [IEEE TPS'22] [Preprint]
  Zhongtang Luo, Rohan Murukutla, Aniket Kate
• RandPiper - Reconfiguration-Friendly Random Beacons with Quadratic Communication [CCS'21] [Preprint]
  Adithya Bhat, Nibesh Shrestha, Zhongtang Luo, Aniket Kate, Kartik Nayak

Projects

Applied Cryptography & Multi-party Computation:

• OrgAn: Organizational Anonymity with Low Latency

Distributed System Security:

• A Tor Consensus Monitor that Detects Equivocation
• Keyedge: Edge call protocol helper for Keystone Enclave

Teaching

• CS31100 - CP2 Competitive Programming II (Fall 2023): Course Page
• CS25100 Data Structures & Algorithms (Teaching Assistant) (Fall 2021): Syllabus

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.

• Competitive Programming Hall of Fame: Zhongtang Luo
• Codeforces: Zhtluo

A couple tutorials on certain subjects in CP:

• Linear Sieve
• Mobius Inversion
• Dirichlet Convolution
• Splay Tree: One Tree to Rule Them All
• From Burnside to Polya: A Short Introduction to Group Theory

CTF Write-up

• Purdue Raymond James Qualifier Write-up

Miscellaneous Projects

Projects not related to academia:

• A LaTeX Slide Template for Purdue University

Random Subjects

Other stuffs that I have written - notes, essays, etc:

• Editing
  • Random Vim Commands
• Purdue
  • Purdue Tundra Server Specification & Access
  • Connect to Purdue VPN without Cisco
  • Purdue CS Printer Setup for Ubuntu
  • Use PAL and eduroam in Purdue
• System Setup
  • My Screen Setup on Ubuntu
  • Inaccessible Boot Device after Installing SSD to a New Machine
  • Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu with Full Disk Encryption
  • Anacron and Mail Backup
  • Host an E-mail Service on Your Own VPS
  • Host a Website Fast
  • Use Specific Fonts on a Website
  • Use Math Formulas and Syntax Highlight in HTML
  • VSCode SSH as root
• Notes
  • Concentration Bound
  • Some Interesting Papers
• LaTeX
  • Use TeX Gyre Font in LuaLaTeX
  • Use LaTeX, SVG and EMF Files in Google Slides
  • Circumvent arXiv LaTeX Detection
  • LaTeX Math Font List
  • Position a Graph, Scope, etc. in TikZ
  • Convert LaTeX to Image