Statistics Seminar - Spring 2020

Seminars are held from 4:00 - 5:00pm, unless noted otherwise.

Please see the location for each event in the schedule down below. 

For questions about the seminar schedule, please contact Zuofeng Shang.

Febrauary 27

Qiang Tang​​​, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Location: CULM 505

Rebuilding Trust in the Digital Age​

Despite laudatory success of information technology, security and privacy issues raise more pressing concerns about the untrustful digital world. Modern cryptography and blockchain technology are two subjects providing technical tools to rebuild trust, however, applying them reliably in practice is notoriously difficult. 

In this talk, I will first briefly overview some implicit assumptions and insufficiencies in these two domains; then as two examples, I will introduce our recent work on how to securely deploy a blockchain and how to make the most robust (asynchronous) permissioned consensus protocols practical.

Dr. Qiang Tang is currently an Assistant Professor from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and also a Director of JD-NJIT-ISCAS Joint Blockchain Lab. Before joining NJIT, he was a postdoc researcher at Cornell University. His research interests span broadly in applied and theoretical cryptography, and blockchain technology.

Qiang was selected to MIT Technical Review 35 Innovators Under 35, China, 2019; he won a Google Faculty Research Award, 2019, and also an Asiacrypt Conference Paper Award 2016. His research was generously supported by NSF, DoE, AFRL, Google, JD, Filecoin and several other blockchain foundations.  

April 2

Canceled

April 16

Canceled

April 23

Canceled

April 27

Canceled
 

Updated: May 6, 2020