CV
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Sep 2022 – Jun 2026
- Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Sadoghi, Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab)
- Research topics: High-Performance Blockchain Infrastructure; BFT Consensus Protocols; Transaction Scheduling; Parallel Execution; MEV Problem
- Awards: GGCS Spring Quarter Fellowship Award (2023, 2024); GGCS Summer Ph.D. Fellowship (2023, 2024)
- GREAT (Global Research Experience in Advanced Technology) Program, UC Davis, Sep 2021 – Jul 2022
- Research Assistant Intern, Exploratory Systems Lab (Remote)
- B.Eng., Software Engineering, Zhejiang University, Sep 2018 – Jul 2022
- Hangzhou, China
- Awards: Third Prize Scholarship of Zhejiang University (2019, 2020, 2021); Excellent Engineer Scholarship of Software Engineering Major (2022)
Work experience
Research Scientist, Sei Labs, Inc., Jun 2026 – present
- Research Intern, Mysten Labs, Inc., Jun 2025 – Sep 2025, Remote
- Worked on a research project on transaction scheduling in Multi-proposer consensus to accelerate parallel transaction execution and mitigate congestion under high-contention workloads.
- Fullstack Software Engineer Intern, Hangzhou Zhuxing Information Technology Co., Ltd., Jul 2020 – Oct 2020, Hangzhou, China
Open-source
- ResilientDB (Apache Incubation) — Architect
- Implemented BFT consensus protocols in ResilientDB, including PBFT, HotStuff-1, and FairDAG.
- GitHub: apache/incubator-resilientdb
Publications
Brief Announcement: Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols
Gupta, S., Kang, D., Malkhi, D., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "Brief Announcement: Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols." In Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025) (LIPIcs, Vol. 356, pp. 59:1–59:7). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. [Preprint] [Blog]
HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation
Kang, D., Gupta, S., Malkhi, D., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation." Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 3(3), 1–29. Honorable Mention for Best Artifact. [Preprint] [Blog]
FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design
Kang, D., Chen, J., Dinh, T. T. A., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 19(2), 265–278. [Preprint]
Fides: Scalable Censorship-Resistant DAG Consensus via Trusted Components
Xie, S., Kang, D., Lyu, H., Niu, J., & Sadoghi, M. (2025). "Fides: Scalable Censorship-Resistant DAG Consensus via Trusted Components." arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01062.
Spotless: Concurrent Rotational Consensus Made Practical through Rapid View Synchronization
Kang, D., Rahnama, S., Hellings, J., & Sadoghi, M. (2024). "Spotless: Concurrent Rotational Consensus Made Practical through Rapid View Synchronization." 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1916-1929. IEEE. [Preprint]
Teaching
Service
Program Committee Member
- International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2026
Invited Reviewer
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE, Demo Track), 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS), 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025 – 2026
- ACM SIGMOD ARI (Availability & Reproducibility Initiative), 2025
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) Shadow PC program, 2026
External Reviewer
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025
- International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2023 – 2025
- ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024 – 2025
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024
- ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2024