Bitcoin's success as a global cryptocurrency has paved the way for the emergence of
blockchain, a revolutionary category of distributed systems. However, the growing popularity …

Deep learning can achieve higher accuracy than traditional machine learning algorithms in
a variety of machine learning tasks. Recently, privacy-preserving deep learning has drawn …

With the dramatically increasing deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), remote
monitoring of health data to achieve intelligent healthcare has received great attention …

Building a secure electronic voting system that offers the fairness and privacy of current
voting schemes, while providing the transparency and flexibility offered by electronic …

Designing a secure permissionless distributed ledger (blockchain) that performs on par with
centralized payment processors, such as Visa, is a challenging task. Most existing …

The core technical component of blockchains is consensus: how to reach agreement among
a distributed network of nodes. A plethora of blockchain consensus protocols have been …

The Blockchain technology, featured with its decentralized tamper-resistance based on a
Peer-to-Peer network, has been widely applied in financial applications, and even further …

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank
Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities …

Advanced artificial intelligence techniques, such as federated learning, has been applied to
broad areas, eg, image classification, speech recognition, smart city, and healthcare …

While the IoT deployments multiply in a wide variety of verticals, the most IoT devices lack a
built-in secure firmware update mechanism. Without such a mechanism, however, critical …