Duc V. Le- Staff Research Scientist

Short Bio:

I am currently a staff research scientist at Visa Research.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bern, working with Professor Christian Cachin.

I hold a PhD from Purdue University. I was advised by Professor Aniket Kate and Professor Mikhail Atallah

Interests: Applied Cryptography, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Distributed System

Publications and Preprints

A Transaction-Level Model for Blockchain Privacy,
FC 2024 (To Appear). François-Xavier Wicht, Zhipeng Wang, Duc V. Le, Christian Cachin
Towards Precise Reporting of Cryptographic Misuses,
NDSS 2024 (To Appear). Yikang Chen, Yibo Liu, Duc V. Le, Sze Yiu Chau
Pay Less for Your Privacy: Towards Cost-Effective On-Chain Mixers, AFT 2023. Zhipeng Wang, Marko Cirkovic, Duc V. Le, William Knottenbelt, Christian Cachin
BlindPerm: Efficient MEV Mitigation with an Encrypted Mempool and Permutation, Preprint. Alireza Kavousi, Duc V. Le, Philipp Jovanovic, George Danezis
DSKE: Digital Signature with Key Extraction, Preprint. Orestis Alpos, Zhipeng Wang, Alireza Kavousi, Sze Yiu Chau, Duc V. Le, Christian Cachin
Scalable Off-Chain Auctions, Preprint. Mohsen Minaei, Duc V. Le, Ranjit Kumaresan, Andrew Beams, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Yibin Yang, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Mahdi Zamani
Programmable Payment Channels, Preprint. Yibin Yang, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Duc V. Le, Mahdi Zamani
Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast, OPODIS 2022. Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le, Marko Vukolic, Luca Zanolini
AMR: Autonomous Coin Mixer with Privacy Preserving Reward Distribution, AFT 2021. Duc V. Le, Arthur Gervais
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges, S&P Oakland 2021. Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V. Le, Arthur Gervais
DLSAG: Dual Linkable Ring Signature, Financial Crypto 2020. [paper] [code] Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, RandomRun, Duc V. Le, Sarang Noether, Brandon Goodell, Aniket Kate
T3:Optimized Oblivious Access to Bitcoin and other UTXO-based blockchains, PETS 2020. [paper] [code] Duc V. Le, Lizzy Hurtado, Adil Ahmad, Mohsen Minaei, Byoungyoung Lee, Aniket Kate
Flexible Digital Signature, ESORICS 2019. [paper] Duc V. Le, Mahimna Kelkar, Aniket Kate
Secure Perfect Hashing: Challenges, Solutions and Applications, Information Science 2021. Javad Darivandpour, Duc V. Le, Mikhail Atallah

People

I worked with:

Marko Cirkovic (Bachelor Student) on
"Cryptographic Primitives for On-chain Tumbler Designs"
François-Xavier Wicht (Master Student) on
"Blockchain Privacy Notions Using the Transaction Graph Model"

Academic Service

2024:
FC, PETS
2023:
CCS, FC, PETS, ESORICS (External Reviewer), ConsensusDay, Science/Stanford of Blockchain Conference (External Reviewer) , ACM SACMAT, IEEE S&P (Poster Jury)
2022:
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, ConsensusDay, ACM SACMAT
2021:
IEEE security and privacy on the blockchain (IEEE S&B 2021), IEEE Euro S&P, CCS (Poster Jury)

Teaching

Purdue University (Teaching Assistant):
CS182 (Foundations of Computer Science), CS381 (Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms), CS528 (Network Security), CS555 (Cryptography). I am indebted to the Purdue Computer Science Department for sponsoring my Ph.D. through their Teaching Assistant program (5 out of 6 years).
Univeristy of Bern (Instructor):
Seminar on Blockchain Privacy (Covering topics ranging from network level privacy to layer 1 privacy).