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.

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. Liang Zhang, Ziming Wang, Fan Yang, Haibin Kan and Jiheng Zhang. MASH: Mask Shuffling-Based Federated Learning for Both Cross-Silo and Cross-Device Environments. TMC (CCF A), 2026. link
  2. Liang Zhang, Xingyu Wu, Qiuling Yue, Haibin Kan and Jiheng Zhang. Attribute-based publicly verifiable secret sharing. Cybersecurity (CCF-T1, CCF B), 2026, 9(1):123. link
  3. Dongliang Cai, Borui Chen, Liang Zhang, Kexin Li, Haibin Kan. Blockchain-enabled reliable outsourced decryption CP-ABE using responsive zkSNARK for mobile computing. FGCS (CCF-C), 2025, 108182. link
  4. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang, Kexin Li. A Blockchain-Envisioned Mailing System. TCC (CCF B), 2025. link
  5. Fan Yang, Jingzhang Sun, Honglan Huang, Liang Zhang, Jiheng Zhang. MADRNet: Morphology-Aware Dual-Path Reversible Network for Sperm Classification. JBHI (CCF-C), 2025. link
  6. 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. TC (CCF A), 2024, 74(3):901-914. link
  7. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan* and Yihao Wang. Privacy-Preserving AGV Collision-Resistance at the Edge Using Location-Based Encryption. TSC (CCF A), 2023, 16(4): 2868-2878. link
  8. Liang Zhang, Feiyang Qiu, Feng Hao and Haibin Kan*. 1-Round Distributed Key Generation with Efficient Reconstruction Using Decentralized CP-ABE. TIFS (CCF A), 2022, 17:894-907. link
  9. Hang Zhou, Liang Zhang*, Xingyu Wu and Jiheng Zhang*. Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Aggregation for Multi-Task and Multi-Dimensional Data. Comput. J. (CCF B), 2025, bxaf111. link
  10. Dongliang Cai, Liang Zhang, Borui Chen, Haibin Kan*, Registered Attribute-Based Encryption with Reliable Outsourced Decryption Based on Blockchain, FCS (CCF-T1, CCF B), 2025, link
  11. Liang Zhang,Xingyu Wu, Yuhang Ma and Haibin Kan*, Data exchange for the metaverse with accountable decentralized TTPs and incentive mechanisms, TBD (CCF-C), 2025, link
  12. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Feiyang Qiu and Feng Hao. A publicly verifiable optimistic fair exchange protocol using decentralized CP-ABE. Comput. J. (CCF B), 2024, 67(3), 1017-1029. link
  13. Zhanrong Ou, Tao Liu, Yitao Men, Liang Zhang*, Habin Kan. Blockchain-driven optimistic fair exchange based on PVSS and zkSNARKs. CSCWD (CCF B), 2025, pp. 404-410.
  14. Xingyu Wu†, Liang Zhang† and Honglan Huang*, Patient-Centered Data Sharing and Revision Framework Based on Redactable Blockchain. BIBM (CCF B), 2023, pp. 4452-4458. link
  15. 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 (CCF-C), 2023, pp. 81-95. link
  16. 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. CF (CCF-C), 2022, pp. 58-66. link
  17. Liang Zhang, Haibin Kan*, Yuan Li and Jinrong Huang. Poster: Blockchain-Envisioned Secure Generic Communication Framework using Signcryption. SACMAT (CCF-C), 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

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

Professional Services

  1. Member at large, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards Committee
  2. PC, Computer Engineering
  3. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  4. Reviewer, Journal of Software
  5. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  6. Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing