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I am a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University, where I co-lead the Blockchain and Distributed Security Lab with Prof. Xiuzhen Cheng. I joined Shandong University as an Assistant Professor (2021–2023), was promoted to Associate Professor (2023–2024), and promoted early to full professor in 2024. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from The George Washington University (2018-2021) and my B.S. in Physics from Beijing Normal University (2014-2018). I was also a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich.

Research Interests

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Our research vision for the next decade is to understand and engineer the foundations of trust-minimized computation, enabling open systems to remain verifiable, scalable, and resilient by design.

Applied Cryptography

Practical cryptographic protocols for secure computation, private data access, and verifiable execution.

Decentralized Systems

Secure and scalable infrastructure for open networks and challenging communication environments.

Trustworthy AI Systems

Security and reliability of AI systems, AI-assisted security analysis, and secure collaborative learning.

Books

区块链导论
徐明辉, [美]成秀珍编著
清华大学出版社, 2026 第一版
国家一流本科专业配套教材
面向新工科专业建设计算机系列教材

Wireless Consensus: Theory and Applications book cover

Wireless Consensus: Theory and Applications
Minghui Xu, Yifei Zou, Xiuzhen Cheng
Springer Nature, Oct 2024

Recent News

[2026/09] Continuum [Concretely Efficient Asynchronous Dynamic MPC with Guaranteed Output Delivery] was accepted to NDSS 2027.

[2026/08] Received the Young Scientist Award of the Shandong Electronics Society (山东省电子学会科学技术青年奖).

[2026/07] Our new book, Introduction to Blockchain (《区块链导论》), was published by Tsinghua University Press.

[2026/07] LACE [LLM-based IoT Access Control] and SilentLedger [Privacy-Preserving Auditing] were accepted for publication in IEEE TIFS.

[2026/05] AgentDID [Trustless Agent Identity] and OrbitBFT [BFT Consensus on Satellites] were accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2026.

[2026/04] SAGE: Signal-Amplified Guided Embeddings for LLM-based Vulnerability Detection was accepted to ACM ISSTA 2026.

[2026/02] Received the 🏆 NDSS 2026 Distinguished Artifact Award.

[2025/12] Selected as a Qilu Young Scholar.

[2025/12] Selected as a Xiaomi Young Scholar.

[2025/12] PIR-DSN: A Decentralized Storage Network Supporting Private Information Retrieval was accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2026.

[2025/11] Received the Natural Science Award (Second Prize) of Shandong Province.

[2025/09] Received the Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition for USENIX Security 2025 Artifact Evaluation.

[2025/08] VDORAM [Verifiable & Dist RAM] and Koala [Sleepy Consensus with Known Participation] were accepted to NDSS 2026.

[2025/08] Serving on the program committee of ACM CCS 2026.

[2025/07] Serving on the program committee of USENIX Security 2026.

[2025/07] AD-MPC: Asynchronous Dynamic MPC with Guaranteed Output Delivery was accepted to ACM CCS 2025.

[2025/06] Selected as a Taishan Scholar Young Expert.

[2025/05] Co-organizing the inaugural IEEE MASS Workshop on Data Security and LLM Safety in Smart Systems (DLS). Submission details are available at DLS-2025.

[2025/05] Serving on the technical program committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2026.

[2025/04] Our paper "Trinity: A Scalable and Forward-Secure DSSE for Spatio-Temporal Range Query" was accepted for publication in IEEE TIFS.

[2025/03] Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Wireless was accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2025.

[2025/01] I was promoted to full professor through Shandong University's early-promotion track in 2024, as one of six faculty members selected that year.

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