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Fan Zhang

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708
D327 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2022 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Data Independent Order Policy Enforcement: Limitations and Solutions

Conference CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security · December 9, 2024 Order manipulation attacks such as frontrunning and sandwiching have become an increasing concern in blockchain applications such as DeFi. To protect from such attacks, several recent works have designed order policy enforcement (OPE) protocols to order tr ... Full text Cite

SoK: MEV Countermeasures

Conference DeFi 2024 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, Co-Located with: CCS 2024 · November 19, 2024 Blockchains offer strong security guarantees, but they cannot protect the ordering of transactions. Powerful players, such as miners, sequencers, and sophisticated bots, can reap significant profits by selectively including, excluding, or reordering user t ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Disentangling Transaction Privacy and Consensus in Ethereum

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Ethereum Foundation · 2022 - 2027

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Education, Training & Certifications


Cornell University · 2020 Ph.D.

External Links


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