about me
Ted focused on fundamental problems of fault-tolerance, consensus
protocols and storage systems during Ph.D. at Cornell University,
exemplified by HotStuff protocol whose variants have been adopted by a
wide spectrum of projects, Snow/Avalanche protocol that led to a public
blockchain deployed among thousands of nodes worldwide, and co-founded
a token-listed startup, Ava Labs. His taste of research is to build the
systems that are provably correct and practically effective. Currently,
he is tackling the next challenge in blockchains from a systems
perspective. He is looking for research collaboration and bright intern
students on this journey.
publication
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Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability
[arXiv:1906.08936] [coin:AVAX] [nodes] [explorer]
Ava Labs's blockchain uses Avalanche protocol in this paper.
Bitcoin Cash developers discussed about using the protocol as their "pre-consensus".
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HotStuff: BFT Consensus with Linearity and Responsiveness
[PODC 2019] -
HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain
[arXiv:1803.05069] [libhotstuff code]
Facebook (Meta)'s Libra (Diem) project is powered by our HotStuff consensus protocol.
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CedrusDB: Persistent Key-Value Store with Memory-Mapped Lazy-Trie
[arXiv:1803.05069]
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Sync HotStuff: Simple and Practical Synchronous State Machine Replication*
[IEEE S&P 2020]
(* author names in alphabetical order)
demo & talks
- Scaling the Infrastructure of Practical Blockchain Systems (dissertation defense) [video]
- An On-Chain Dungeon Game Map Generator
- Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus (HotStuff) (Data Skeptic) [podcast]
- The Infrastructure for Next-Gen Blockchains (Blockchain Summit Latam 2020) [video]
- Sync HotStuff (S&P 2020) [video]
- The Infrastructure for Blockchain 3.0 (Upbit Developer Conference 2019) [video]
- Snowball BFT Consensus Visualization
- HotStuff Slides (PODC 2019)
- HotStuff Slides (2018 Xi'an International Workshop on Blockchain)