ResearchGateZhang Sheng (张升)
I am currently a Research Assistant at City University of Hong Kong and the blockchain development lead for the CancerDao startup.
Profile
Research and EngineeringPublication Snapshot
To date, I have authored eight papers: three accepted in JCR Q1 journals (Computer Physics Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and Information Fusion), one accepted by Frontiers in Blockchain, one currently under review at a top journal (IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, TDSC), two under review at top conferences (DSN 2026 and USENIX Security 2026), and one published in an EI-indexed international conference proceeding (SPCS 2024, SPIE).
Background
I obtained my Master’s degree from Hefei University of Technology, where I focused my research on blockchain security, smart contract analysis, and GPU acceleration.
During this time, I also served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
Research Experience
Selected EngagementsEastern Institute of Technology (EITech)
As a graduate intern at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EITech) in the research groups led by Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Shiyi Chen and Prof. Hanbo Jiang, I was responsible for the development of an acoustic ray-tracing software (8000 lines) and the implementation of GPU acceleration for its core algorithms. This work resulted in a first-author publication in Computer Physics Communications PDF, one of the top journals in mathematical physics, and was recognized with an invention patent.
Zhejiang University
While visiting Zhejiang University, I collaborated with Prof. Haitao Xu and Prof. Yanbin Wang on fraud-detection methods for blockchain transaction data. This collaboration resulted in a first-author publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (JCR Q1) PDF and a co-authored paper in Information Fusion (IF 14.7, JCR Q1) PDF.
Singapore Management University
More recently, as a visiting student at Singapore Management University under Prof. Yue Duan and Prof. Kai Li, I have been working on the static analysis of smart-contract bytecode, with a particular emphasis on transfer-obfuscation techniques. Our team has submitted a paper detailing these findings to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)—one of the top journals in cybersecurity—and it is currently under peer review PDF.
News and Updates
Latest- Jan 2026 "Cryptographic Open Science: Enabling Secure and Incentivized Biomedical Data Sharing with Web 3.0 Technologies to Overcome the Open Science Dilemma" was accepted by Frontiers in Blockchain.
- Jun 2025 "Accelerating Beam-Tracing Method with Dynamic Parallelism on Graphics Processing Units" has been accepted by Computer Physics Communications journal.
- May 2025 "Dynamic Feature Fusion: Combining Global Graph Structures and Local Semantics for Blockchain Fraud Detection" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal.
- Feb 2025 "Ethereum Fraud Detection via Joint Transaction Language Model and Graph Representation Learning" has been accepted by Information Fusion journal.
Open to collaborations
If you are interested in any aspect of my work, I am always open to discussions and collaborations.