Jianting Zhang

Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

Email: antfinancialyujian [at] gmail [dot] com

Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in the department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Aniket Kate at FreedomLab. Previously, I obtained my Bachalor's and Master's degrees from Sun Yat-sen University, working with Prof. Wuhui Chen and Prof. Zibin Zheng.

My primary research interest is the consensus problem of distributed systems/blockchains. I am dedicated to developing scalable and secure consensus protocols toward supporting more emerging decentralized applications and mitigating new security issues, such as MEV.

In addition to doing research, I also enjoy singing. My friends call me Purdue's Eason Chan. My famous song - Half Moon Serenade, however, is created by another Cantonese singer Hacken Lee.

Selected Publications

Optimal Sharding for Scalable Blockchains with Deconstructed SMR [poster]
Jianting Zhang, Zhongtang Luo, Raghavendra Ramesh, Aniket Kate
51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2025.

Front-running Attack in Sharded Blockchains and Fair Cross-shard Consensus [talk]
Jianting Zhang, Wuhui Chen, Sifu Luo, Tiantian Gong, Zicong Hong, Aniket Kate
31st Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024.

Preprint

No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains
Jianting Zhang, Aniket Kate

Awards

Graduate Student with Honors
2020 ICPP Best Paper Award Runner-up
2020 National Scholarship for Graduate Students

Experience

Research Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beijing, May 2020 - Aug. 2020

Services

Reviewer
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Sub-Reviewer
- IEEE ICDCS 2025
- FC 2025