Zhongtang Luo (How to Read: Zone-Tan Lowe) 羅中瑭 Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science Purdue University 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

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

Projects

Applied Cryptography & Multi-party Computation:

• OrgAn: Organizational Anonymity with Low Latency
• RandPiper: Reconfiguration-Friendly Random Beacons with Quadratic Communication

Distributed System Security:

• A Tor Consensus Monitor that Detects Equivocation

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
• Atcoder: Zhtluo
• Yukicoder: zhtluo

A couple tutorials on certain subjects in CP:

• Linear Sieve
• Mobius Inversion
• Dirichlet Convolution
• Splay Tree: One Tree to Rule Them All

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
  • Connect to Purdue VPN without Cisco
  • Purdue CS Printer Setup for Ubuntu
  • Use PAL and eduroam in Purdue
• System Setup
  • 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
• Papers
  • Some Interesting Papers
  • A Tale of Obfuscation, Punctured Programs and Leader Election
• LaTeX
  • LaTeX Math Font List
  • Position a Graph, Scope, etc. in TikZ
  • Convert LaTeX to Image