Scholar
Fan Zhang
Google Scholar ID: YTokrfkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Yale University
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,367
H-index
23
i10-index
30
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-invented DECO, the first zkTLS protocol (2019), now part of Chainlink’s Platform Privacy Suite
- Received an NSF collaborative award for TEE-powered Confidential Genome Imputation and Analytics
- Published paper: 'Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts'
- Paper 'Decentralization of Ethereum’s Builder Market' accepted to IEEE S&P 2025
- Released paper: 'AUCIL: An Inclusion List Design for Rational Parties'
- Paper 'Qelect' accepted to USENIX Security 2025
- Paper 'Prooφ' accepted to FC 2025 (Financial Cryptography)
Background
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Yale University
- Broadly interested in computer security and applied cryptography
- Focuses on techniques enabling Secure Decentralized Systems with properties like transparency, verifiability, decentralized trust, and governance
- Research aims to advance the technical foundations of decentralized systems, analyze real-world security, and build practical tools for socially impactful applications
- Affiliated with IC3, Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC), and Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY)
- Teaches 'Intro to Blockchain' and 'Real-World Cryptography' at Yale
