Duc V. Le

  • Staff Research Engineer, Circle
Short Bio:

I am currently a staff research engineer at Circle. Previously, I was 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 Systems Security

Publications and Preprints

People

I worked with:

Academic Service

  • 2025:

    S&P (PC), CCS (PC), PETS (PC), ACNS (PC), AsiaCCS (PC)
  • 2024:

    FC (PC), PETS (PC), CCS (PC)
  • 2023:

    CCS (PC), FC (PC), NDSS (Student Support Committee), ConsensusDay (PC), SACMAT (PC), PETS (External Reviewer), SBC (External Reviewer)
  • 2022:

    ACM TOPS (Reviewer), IEEE TDSC (Reviewer), ConsensusDay (PC), SACMAT (PC), S&P (Poster Jury)
  • 2021:

    IEEE S&B (PC), EuroS&P (External Reviewer), CCS (Poster Jury)

Teaching

  • Purdue University (Teaching Assistant):

    CS182 (Discrete Math), CS381 (Algorithms and Data Structures), CS555 (Cryptography), CS528 (Network Security).

Invited Talks

  • 2025:

    CT-RSA 2025: Digital Signature with Key Extraction
  • 2023:

    IC3 Winter Retreat 2023: Modelling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast
  • 2022:

    OPODIS 2022: Modelling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast
  • 2019:

    Bitcoin 2019 (Scaling Bitcoin): T3: Scaling Oblivious Accesses to Large-scale blockchain; ESORICS 2019: Flexible Digital Signature