It’s a true pleasure to be recognised as a Fellow of the ACS (Australian Computer Society). I’m grateful for the many collaborators in academia and industry who made this possible, and I look forward to continuing work on advancing the theoretical foundations and practice of blockchain technologies.

Grateful to receive the ACM CCS Top Reviewers Award. On different program committees and reviewing dozens of papers every year is a voluntary effort driven purely by passion for research. It’s heartening to see that dedication acknowledged. @sydneycompsci.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) and to see his talk on “Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Road Ahead” so well received.
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A great pleasure to meet with leaders from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Our discussion highlighted the promising potential of blockchain in enabling trustworthy digital agriculture.
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This recognition further reinforces the mission of our Sydney Blockchain Centre (lnkd.in/g2M7Y7iG), to advance innovation in blockchain and decentralised science.

I’m delighted to receive the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, recognising my contributions to blockchain technology. A special thanks to IEEE TEMS TC on Blockchain and DLT, and NTU Centre in Computational Technologies for Finance, for this recognition.

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We also launched the Decentralised Science Seminar Series, discussing cutting-edge research.

We’re open to collaborations -- just drop me a message for a coffee chat -- virtual if needed.

This could have a variety of applications in Central Bank Digital Currency (our work was motivated by the architecture proposed by the Bank for International Settlements and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority), trusted hardware–based wallets, and beyond.

Our CCS’25 paper introduces the concept of posterior security, enabling anonymity and message hiding for an already generated standard signature, even by someone who has no access to the signing key.

Now available online: eprint.iacr.org/2025/855.pdf

We propose Mosaic: client-side, local shard decisions, 20,000× faster, 228B input vs GBs, 95% throughput retained.

SOTA schemes like TxAllo (ICDE’23) use miner-driven global optimisation, requiring miners to sync the full ledger — aiming to cut costly cross-shard txs, but undermining sharded state’s goal of scalable performance.

Joint work with my PhD student Yuanzhe Zhang and colleague Shirui Pan (Griffith Uni), towards practical sharding in blockchains.

We close both gaps:
• Constant latency (3Δ) in the sleepy model
• Graded Common Prefix (GCP): generic DAG finality in 2 steps (vs 4 in BFT)
• adding flexibility via extended Ebb-and-Flow

SOTA DAG protocols fall into two camps:
• Prioritise liveness: support dynamic availability, but with non-constant latency
• Prioritise safety: rely on protocol-specific BFT for finality

Joint work also with my former student Runchao Han (Babylon Lab) and colleague Ron Steinfeld (Monash Uni)

Achilles:
• Removes rollback prevention from the critical path
• Matches CFT protocols in latency (4 steps) & linear message complexity
• Delivers state-of-the-art performance among TEE-assisted BFT protocols

SOTA TEE-assisted BFT faces a trade-off:
• High performance (e.g. FlexiBFT) reduces fault tolerance
• Strong tolerance (e.g. Damysus) may suffer from rollback issues (e.g. if using SGX)

Building on our Damysus and OneShot protocols (EuroSys’22, IPDPS’24), Achilles takes a key first step toward resolving rollback issues in
TEE-powered hybrid BFT systems.