Liang Zhang

Liang Zhang

@HKUST

Personal Information

I welcome students who are self‑driven, interested in the IT industry, or passionate about scientific research to reach out. Whether you aim for a career in industry or academia, you can learn the skills you seek here. My current research interests include blockchain, applied cryptography, and deep learning.

Contact

  1. Email: briliasm@gmail.com
  2. Wechat: zkprove

Work/Education Experience

  1. 2008-2012 Bachelor @Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  2. 2012-2014 R&D @Baidu China Inc.
  3. 2015-2016 R&D @Startup company
  4. 2017-2022 Integrated MS-PhD Program @Fudan University Directed by: Haibin Kan
  5. 2022-2023 Lecturer @Hainan University
  6. 2024-Now Associate Professor @Hainan University
  7. 2024-2025 PostDoc @HKUST
  8. 2025-Now Research Assistant Professor @HKUST

Online ePrints

  1. Liang Zhang, Dongliang Cai, Tao Liu, Xingyu Wu, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang and Moti Yung, 2025. Publicly Verifiable Generalized Secret Sharing Schemes and Their Applications. Cryptology ePrint Archive. link
  2. Liang Zhang, Dongliang Cai, Yiwen Gao, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang and Moti Yung, 2025. Relating PVSS to CCA2-Secure Threshold Encryption: Generic Schemes with O(1) Verification Complexity. Cryptology ePrint Archive. link
  3. Liang Zhang, Tao Liu, Haibin Kan and Jiheng Zhang, 2025. AsyRand: asynchronous distributed randomness beacon with reconfiguration. Cryptology ePrint Archive. link

Selected Publications

  1. Dongliang Cai, Liang Zhang, Borui Chen, Haibin Kan. Registered attribute-based encryption with reliable outsourced decryption based on blockchain. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025. link
  2. Dongliang Cai, Borui Chen, Liang Zhang, Kexin Li, Haibin Kan. Blockchain-enabled reliable outsourced decryption CP-ABE using responsive zkSNARK for mobile computing. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025, 108182. link
  3. Fan Yang, Jingzhang Sun, Honglan Huang, Liang Zhang, Jiheng Zhang. MADRNet: Morphology-Aware Dual-Path Reversible Network for Sperm Classification. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2025. link
  4. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang, Kexin Li. A Blockchain-Envisioned Mailing System. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 2025. link
  5. Liang Zhang, Zhanrong Ou, Changhui Hu, Haibin Kan* and Jiheng Zhang. Data sharing in the metaverse with key abuse resistance based on decentralized CP-ABE. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2024, 74(3):901-914. link
  6. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan* and Yihao Wang. Privacy-Preserving AGV Collision-Resistance at the Edge Using Location-Based Encryption. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2023, 16(4): 2868-2878. link
  7. Liang Zhang, Feiyang Qiu, Feng Hao and Haibin Kan*. 1-Round Distributed Key Generation with Efficient Reconstruction Using Decentralized CP-ABE. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022, 17:894-907. link
  8. Hang Zhou, Liang Zhang*, Xingyu Wu and Jiheng Zhang*. Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Aggregation for Multi-Task and Multi-Dimensional Data. The Computer Journal, 2025, bxaf111. link
  9. Dongliang Cai, Liang Zhang, Borui Chen, Haibin Kan*, Registered Attribute-Based Encryption with Reliable Outsourced Decryption Based on Blockchain, Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025, link
  10. Liang Zhang,Xingyu Wu, Yuhang Ma and Haibin Kan*, Data exchange for the metaverse with accountable decentralized TTPs and incentive mechanisms, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2025, link
  11. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Feiyang Qiu and Feng Hao. A publicly verifiable optimistic fair exchange protocol using decentralized CP-ABE. the Computer Journal, 2024, 67(3), 1017-1029. link
  12. Zhanrong Ou, Tao Liu, Yitao Men, Liang Zhang*, Habin Kan. Blockchain-driven optimistic fair exchange based on PVSS and zkSNARKs. the 2025 28th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2025, pp. 404-410.
  13. Xingyu Wu†, Liang Zhang† and Honglan Huang*, Patient-Centered Data Sharing and Revision Framework Based on Redactable Blockchain, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2023, pp. 4452-4458. link
  14. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Jinrong Huang and Zhanpeng Zhang. Hierarchically Delegatable and Revocable Access Control for Large-scale IoT Devices with Tradability based on Blockchain. APWeb-WAIM, 2023, pp. 81-95. link
  15. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Honglan Huang. Patient-Centered Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing and Dynamic Consent Framework using Consortium Blockchain and Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption. In the 19th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, 2022, pp. 58-66. link
  16. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Yuan Li and Jinrong Huang. Poster: Blockchain-Envisioned Secure Generic Communication Framework using Signcryption. In the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, 2022, pp. 255–257. link

Fundings

  1. 2024.02.08-2026.02.07, Hainan Province Key R&D Project, 660,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.
  2. 2024.01.01-2026.12.31, National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scientists, 300,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.
  3. 2022.07.07-Now, the Foundation of Hainan University, 100,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.

Teaching Activities

  1. Number Theory
  2. Blockchain Theory and Methodology
  3. Blockchain and Web3