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About the Lab DirectorPrincipal Investigator

  • Huawei Huang is a Professor at the School of Software Engineering (SSE), and a dual-appointed professor at Lingnan College, at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China.
⌬ ResearchGate 📚 Google Scholar 🏛 His SYSU Page
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News SelectedTimeline

  • Nov. 2026Great News! Prof. Huawei Huang will serve as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of npj Financial Technology.
  • Nov. 2026Great News! Prof. Huawei Huang’s Google Scholar citations have exceeded 10,000.
  • Sep. 21, 2026Great News! We released AgentEmulator v1.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/agent-emulator
  • Aug. 5, 2026Good News! Prof. Huawei Huang was invited to join the TPC of INFOCOM 2027.
  • Apr. 28, 2026Good News! HuangLab has 3 blockchain papers accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2026!! 中山大学软件工程学院黄华威研究组 (HuangLab) 在区块链可扩展性领域的3篇最新论文被分布式计算领域国际会议 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2026 接收。本次 ICDCS 2026 论文接收率是18.59%。【这3篇论文的详细介绍 blog】
  • Mar. 24, 2026Good News! Prof. Huawei Huang has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE TNSE (JCR Q1).
  • Feb. 12, 2026Good News! Our paper, ShardCutter, has been accepted for publication in IEEE ToN.
  • Jan. 13, 2026Good News! Our paper, “LiquidityPool: Game-Theoretic Analysis of Stakeholder Revenue in Ranking-Dependent DeFi,” has been accepted for WWW 2026. Big congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Qinde Chen (陈钦德). To download this paper: https://xintelligence.pro/archives/1572
  • Prof. Huang is the BlockNetSys Workshop chair, co-located at CoNext 2025.
  • Mar. 26, 2025Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been promoted to full professor.
  • Mar. 2025Our two recent papers, “BrokerChain: A Blockchain Sharding Protocol by Exploiting Broker Accounts” (ToN) and “BlockEmulator: An Emulator Enabling to Test Blockchain Sharding Protocols” (TSC), have been accepted by IEEE/ACM ToN and IEEE TSC, respectively.
  • Dec. 7, 2024Congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Jian Zheng, for his paper accepted by INFOCOM 2025. Title: “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions.” To download this paper: https://xintelligence.pro/archives/1371
  • Aug. 11, 2024I added a new blog about my recent invited talks. URL: https://xintelligence.pro/archives/1342
  • May. 11, 2024We organized an academic forum on blockchain at the international conference CCF ICSS 2024. See more details in our blog: https://xintelligence.pro/archives/1280
  • Apr. 23, 2024Good News! We’ve got 3 papers accepted by ICDCS 2024! Congrats to team members Dr. Taotao Li, Jialiang Liu, and Chun Wang. 论文介绍-微信公众号文章
  • Jan. 2024Dr. Huawei Huang has been invited to be a TPC track co-chair for the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference (GBC). This conference took place in Shanghai on August 21-23, 2024. [TPC]
  • Jan. 12, 2024Dr. Huawei Huang has been invited to join the program committees of the ICDCS 2024 (44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems) Blockchain Track and the Industrial and Interdisciplinary Studies of Distributed Systems and Applications Track. [TPC]
  • Dec. 1, 2023Great News! Our 2 papers, titled “Broker2Earn: Towards Maximizing Broker Revenue and System Liquidity for Sharded Blockchains” and “Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism,” have been accepted by INFOCOM 2024. Big congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Qinde Chen (陈钦德), and my Master’s student, Mr. Yue Lin (林岳). Good job! 论文介绍-知乎专栏文章
  • Oct. 26, 2023Dr. Huawei Huang is invited to give a talk at the Web3 forum at CNCC 2023 in Shenyang. Title of talk: “Building Infrastructure for Web3: Blockchain Sharding Studies.”
  • Oct. 11, 2023Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been recognized in the World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking (October 2023).
  • Sep. 6, 2023Good News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been appointed Youth Editorial Board Member for the ELSP Journal Blockchain (ISSN 2959-1260).
  • May 13, 2023Great News! We made our experimental tool (named blockEmulator) open-source. Visit our websites –>> www.blockEmulator.com, and https://github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/block-emulator (GitHub page).
  • May. 11, 2023Good News! Our paper, “Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Sharded Blockchain,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet). PDF 公众号介绍文章
  • Apr. 13, 2023Good News! Our paper “Adaptive Double-Spending Attacks on PoW-based Blockchains” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congratulations to Mr. Jian Zheng (郑简)! 论文介绍 公众号介绍文章
  • Mar. 30, 2023Great News! Our paper “tMPT: Reconfiguration across Blockchain Shards via Trimmed Merkle Patricia Trie” has been accepted by IEEE IWQoS 2023! Congratulations to Yetong (赵烨彤), good job! 论文介绍
  • Feb. 20, 2023Great News! Our paper “GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism” has been accepted by VLDB 2023!!
  • Jan. 28, 2023Great News! Dr. Huawei Huang has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Blockchains (ISSN 2813-5288) Editorial Board
  • Jan. 19, 2023Dr. Huawei Huang will publish his first science book, From Blockchain to Web3, in April 2023. You can download a preview version of this book from blog page
  • Jul. 1, 2022Good News! Dr. Huang has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
  • Dec. 3, 2021Good News! Our paper titled “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding” has been accepted by INFOCOM 2022. ResearchGate Page 公众号介绍文章
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Research Interests of HuangLabWhat We Work On

▸Distributed Computing and Systems
▸Blockchain (Consensus protocols, Decentralized Networks, DeFi, etc.)
▸Trustworthy Infrastructure for AI Agents
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Honors received by HuangLab MembersAwards

Dec. 2023Best Paper Award, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS).
Oct. 2023Dr. Huawei Huang has been recognized in the World Ranking of the Top 2% of Scientists (October 2023).
Dec. 20222021 Best Paper Award runner-up, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS).
Aug. 2016Best Paper Award, IEEE TrustCom 2016.
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Funding and Grants ReceivedResearch Support

01NSFC, General Program, Next-generation Blockchain Sharding, FY2027-2030PI
02Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (广东省杰出青年基金项目), FY2025-2028PI
03NSFC, General Program, Blockchain scalability, FY2023-2026PI
04National Key & Dev. Program of China, Blockchain scalability, FY2022-2025Co-PI
05CCF-Huawei Industrial Project, Blockchain scalability, FY2022-2023PI
06National Key & Dev. Program of China, Federated Learning, FY2021-2023Co-PI
07NSFC of Young Scientist Program, Edge Computing, FY2020-2022PI
08Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, FY2019-2022PI
09Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, FY2021-2023PI
10Fundamental Research Funds for the Top Universities of China, FY2019-2021PI
11Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, FY2019-2022PI
12Kyoto University Research Fund for Young Scientists (Start-up), FY 2018, JPY ¥830KPI
13JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows)Project Number: JP16J07062 · Project Period: April 2016 ~ March 2018 · Research Title: “Joint Optimization of Routing and Protection for Software-Defined Networking”PI
14JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (Apr 2016 – Mar 2018)The JSPS Research Fellowship is awarded to young researchers in Japan who demonstrate excellence in their research.
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Selected Publications from HuangLab(* represents the corresponding author)

2026
  • Xiaofei Luo (罗肖飞，博士后), Jian Zheng, Baozhou Xie, Huawei Huang* (黄华威, 通讯作者), “Scaling Blockchain State Management via Heterogeneous Low-Resource Followers,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Oct. 29, 2026. TPDS CCF-A 计算机系统结构顶刊 公众号介绍文章
  • Xiaofei Luo, Jian Zheng, Huawei Huang* (corresponding author), Zhaokang Yin, Guang Ye, Bin Xiao*, “Feather: A Two-Phase Propose-and-Endorse Consensus Protocol for Asynchronous Blockchains,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), early-access, pp. 1-13, 2026. TC CCF-A top-tier Journal 公众号介绍文章
  • Huawei Huang, Jian Zheng, Xuanye Zhu, Yue Lin, Ting Cai, Lu Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo*, “ShardCutter: A Protocol Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards,” IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet), vol. 34, pp. 3393-3407, 2026. ToN CCF-A top-tier Journal 公众号介绍文章
  • Qinde Chen (陈钦德, Ph.D. student), Huawei Huang* (corresponding author), Jian Zheng (Ph.D. student), “LiquidityPool: Game-Theoretic Analysis of Stakeholder Revenue in Ranking-Dependent DeFi,” The Web Conference 2026 (WWW’26), June 2026, Dubai, UAE. WWW CCF-A top-tier conference
2025
  • Huawei Huang, Zhaokang Yin, Qinde Chen, Jian Zheng, Xiaofei Luo, Guang Ye, Xiaowen Peng, Yue Lin, Zibin Zheng*, Song Guo, “BrokerChain: A Blockchain Sharding Protocol by Exploiting Broker Accounts,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet), vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1930-1945, 2025. ToN CCF-A top-tier Journal
  • Huawei Huang, Guang Ye, Qinglin Yang, Qinde Chen, Zhaokang Yin, Xiaofei Luo, Jianru Lin, Jian Zheng, Taotao Li, Zibin Zheng, “BlockEmulator: An Emulator Enabling to Test Blockchain Sharding Protocols,” IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 690-703, 2025. TSC CCF-A top-tier Journal
  • Jian Zheng (郑简，博士生), Huawei Huang* (黄华威, corresponding author), Yinqiu Liu, Taotao Li, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng, “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 19-22, 2025, London, United Kingdom. INFOCOM CCF-A top-tier conference
2024
  • Huawei Huang (黄华威), YueLin (林岳, 硕士生), Zibin Zheng*, “Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 20-23 May 2024, Vancouver, Canada. INFOCOM CCF-A top-tier conference 公众号文章介绍
  • Qinde Chen (陈钦德, 博士生), Huawei Huang* (黄华威), Zhaokang Yin (殷昭伉), Guang Ye (叶光), Qinglin Yang (杨青林), “Broker2Earn: Towards Maximizing Broker Revenue and System Liquidity for Sharded Blockchains,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 20-23 May 2024, Vancouver, Canada. INFOCOM CCF-A top-tier conference 论文介绍-知乎专栏文章
2023
  • Huawei Huang, Xiaowen Peng (彭肖文, 硕士生), Yue Lin, Miaoyong Xu, Guang Ye, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Sharded Blockchain,” IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet), vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 3284-3299, 2023. ToN CCF-A top-tier Journal PDF 公众号介绍文章
  • Jian Zheng, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Adaptive Double-Spending Attacks on PoW-based Blockchains,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023. TDSC CCF-A top-tier Journal 论文介绍 公众号介绍文章
  • Huawei Huang, Yetong Zhao (赵烨彤, 硕士生), Zibin Zheng*, “tMPT: Reconfiguration across Blockchain Shards via Trimmed Merkle Patricia Trie,” IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2023. IWQoS 论文介绍
2022
  • Huawei Huang, Xiaowen Peng (彭肖文, 硕士生), Jianzhou Zhan, Shenyang Zhang, Yue Lin, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “BrokerChain: A Cross-Shard Blockchain Protocol for Account/Balance-based State Sharding,” INFOCOM, May 2022. INFOCOM CCF-A top-tier conference ResearchGate Page 公众号介绍文章
  • Huawei Huang, Zhengyu Yue, Xiaowen Peng, Liuding He, Wuhui Chen, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Elastic Resource Allocation against Imbalanced Transaction Assignments in Sharding-based Permissioned Blockchains,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 2372-2385, Oct. 2022. TPDS CCF-A top-tier Journal ResearchGate Page 公众号介绍文章
  • Huawei Huang, Ruixin Li, Jialiang Liu, Sicong Zhou, Kangying Lin, and Zibin Zheng, “ContextFL: Context-aware Federated Learning by Estimating the Training and Reporting Phases of Mobile Clients,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022. ICDCS 公众号介绍文章
  • Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Yetong Zhao, Xiaowen Peng, Ruijie Yang, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Achieving Scalability and Load Balance across Blockchain Shards for State Sharding,” the 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2022. SRDS 公众号介绍文章
2021
  • Huawei Huang, Zhenyi Huang, Xiaowen Peng, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “MVCom: Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Large-Scale Sharded Blockchain,” ICDCS, July 2021. ICDCS Top-tier conference in the field of Distributed Computing and Systems PDF Slides 公众号介绍文章
  • Jian Zheng, Canlin Li, Huawei Huang*, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “Revisiting Double-Spending Attacks on the Bitcoin Blockchain: New Findings,” IWQoS 2021 CCF-B Slides
  • Huawei Huang, Wei Kong, Sicong Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains: Theories, Modelings, and Tools,” ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 54, no. 2, March 2021. IF: 7.99 arXiv: 2007.03520
2020
  • Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Kun Wang, and Yasuo Okabe, “Coflow-like Online Data Acquisition from Low-Earth-Orbit Datacenters,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume: 19, Issue: 12, pp. 2743-2760, Dec. 1, 2020. TMC CCF-A Top-tier Journal PDF
  • Sicong Zhou, Huawei Huang*, Wuhui Chen, Pan Zhou, Zibin Zheng, Song Guo, “PIRATE: A Blockchain-based Secure Framework of Distributed Machine Learning in 5G Networks,” IEEE Network, 2020. PDF
Prior to 2018
  • [1] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Keqiu Li, Baoliu Ye, and Weihua Zhuang, “Near-Optimal Routing Protection for In-Band Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 7421-7432, October 2016. JSAC CCF-A top-tier Journal PDF
  • [2] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Weifa Liang, and Albert Y. Zomaya, “Cost Minimization for Rule Caching in Software Defined Networking,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1007-1016, April 2016. TPDS CCF-A top-tier Journal PDF
  • [3] Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Baoliu Ye, and Ivan Stojmenovic, “Joint Optimization of Rule Placement and Traffic Engineering for QoS Provisioning in Software Defined Network,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3488-3499, Dec. 2015. TC CCF-A top-tier Journal PDF

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