Dr. Balaji Palanisamy (Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Networked Systems) and former SCI students Chao Li and Runhua Xu receive Distinguished Paper Award at the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023 held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Chao Li is presently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer and Information Technology at Beijing Jiaotong University and Dr. Runhua Xu is now a faculty member at Beihang University.
This joint paper of Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, Dr. Chao Li and Dr. Runhua Xu, titled "How Hard is Takeover in DPoS Blockchains? Understanding the Security of Coin-based Voting Governance," is co-authored with Dr. Li Duan, Dr. Jiqiang Liu and Dr. Wei Wang from Beijing Jiaotong University.
The paper discusses the vulnerability of Takeover attacks in Delegated Proof-of-Stake Blockchains and their study provides novel insights into improving the takeover resistance of any blockchain that implements the coin-based voting governance model.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, Dr. Chao Li and Dr. Runhua Xu on this achievement! Learn more about their paper here.
Pictured above: Balaji Palanisamy and Chao Li at CCS 2023.