Jianting Zhang Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science Purdue University Email: zhan4674 [at] purdue [dot] edu Google Scholar    Github

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. My mission is to make distributed systems more efficient and reliable. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work and collaborating with me!

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.

Preprint

• No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains
  Jianting Zhang, Aniket Kate
  The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR), 2025.

Publications

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


• Porygon: Scaling Blockchain via 3D Parallelism
  Wuhui Chen, Ding Xia, Zhongteng Cai, Hong-Ning Dai, Jianting Zhang, Zicong Hong, Zibin Zheng
  40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.


• Auncel: Fair Byzantine Consensus Protocol with High Performance
  Wuhui Chen, Yikai Feng, Jianting Zhang, Zhongteng Cai, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng
  43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2024.


• 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.


• SPARROW: Expediting Smart Contract Execution for Blockchain Sharding via Inter-shard Caching
  Junyuan Liang, Peiyuan Yao, Wuhui Chen, Zicong Hong, Jianting Zhang, Ting Cai, Min Sun, Zibin Zheng
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).


• SmartChain: A Dynamic and Self-Adaptive Sharding Framework for IoT Blockchain
  Ting Cai, Wuhui Chen, Jianting Zhang, Zibin Zheng
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC).


• Enhancing Blockchain Performance via On-chain and Off-chain Collaboration
  Wuhui Chen, Zhaoxian Yang, Jianting Zhang, Junyuan Liang, Qilin Sun, Fan Zhou
  21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2023.


• PROPHET: Conflict-Free Sharding Blockchain via Byzantine-Tolerant Deterministic Ordering
  Zicong Hong, Song Guo, Enyuan Zhou, Jianting Zhang, Wuhui Chen, Jinwen Liang, Jie Zhang, Albert Zomaya
  42nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) , 2023.


• Proactive Look-Ahead Control of Transaction Flows for High-Throughput Payment Channel Network
  Wuhui Chen, Xiaoyu Qiu, Zicong Hong, Zibin Zheng, Hong-Ning Dai, Jianting Zhang
  13th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2022.


• Benzene: Scaling Blockchain with Cooperation-Based Sharding
  Zhongteng Cai, Junyuan Liang, Wuhui Chen, Zicong Hong, Hong-Ning Dai, Jianting Zhang, Zibin Zheng
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) .


• Efficient Execution of Arbitrarily Complex Cross-shard Contracts for Blockchain Sharding
  Jianting Zhang, Wuhui Chen, Zicong Hong, Gang Xiao, Linlin Du, Zibin Zheng
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC).


• SkyChain: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Dynamic Blockchain Sharding System [talk]
  (Best Paper Runner-up Award)
  Jianting Zhang*, Zicong Hong*, Xiaoyu Qiu, Yufeng Zhan, Song Guo, Wuhui Chen (*co-first author)
  49th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) , 2020.

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
  

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