Education
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2026
Master of Engineering, Information Security, Renmin University of China, 2017
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Security, Renmin University of China, 2013
Titles and Appointments
Postdoctoral Researcher
Address
410 W 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Research Keywords
Federated learning, security and privacy, system security
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Research Summary/Bio
Wenyi Tang holds a bachelor’s and a master's degree in information security from Renmin University of China, where he completed a master’s thesis on information transmission technology between heterogeneous blockchain systems. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2026. His doctoral research focused on security, decentralized identity and privacy-preserving systems, specifically toward the secure decentralized trust management of user identity information on the blockchain. During his PhD, he completed internships at Nokia Bell-Labs, where he worked on blockchain and token distribution fairness, and at Intel Corporation, contributing to research in trusted distributed security systems and confidential smart contracts.
Featured publications
- Tang W, Mukherjee SS, Park S, Chenli C, Oh H, Kim J, et al. GrAC: Graph-Based Anonymous Credentials from Identity Graphs on Blockchain. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain). p. 113–22. doi:10.1109/Blockchain62396.2024.00024
- Chenli C, Tang W, Lee H, Jung T. Fair22Trade: Digital Trading Platform Ensuring Exchange and Distribution Fairness. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 2024 Sep;21(5):4827–42. doi:10.1109/TDSC.2024.3362196
- Tang W, Chenli C, Ju C, Jung T. Trac2Chain: trackability and traceability of graph data in blockchain with linkage privacy. In: Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing [Internet]. New York, NY, USA. p. 272–81. (SAC ’22). doi:10.1145/3477314.3506993