Mingxun Zhou

Hi, I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm being advised by Giulia Fanti and Elaine Shi.

Research Interests

I am interested in privacy-preserving algorithm design, including secure computation and differential privacy. I am also interested in blockchain.

Education

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University.

Research Papers

• Mercury: Fast Transaction Broadcast in High Performance Blockchain System.

• VRecon: An Efficient Set Reconciliation Algorithm, Bachelor Thesis.

• C. Hou*, M. Zhou*, Y. Ji, P. Daian, F. Tramer, G. Fanti, and A. Juels. SquirRL: Automating Attack Analysis on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning, NDSS 2021.[code]

  *Equal contribution.

• M. Wang*, M. Zhou*, S. Shi, and C. Qian. Vacuum Filters: More Space-Efficient and Faster Replacement for Bloom and Cuckoo Filters, VLDB 2020. [code]

  *Equal contribution.

Others

• If you find difficulty pronouncing my name, it is similar to "Ming-Shin Joel" :)