Tiantian Gong

Email: tiantian.gong@yale.edu

About

I am currently a postdoc hosted by Dr. Ittay Eyal at Technion and Dr. Fan Zhang at Yale.

I received my PhD from Purdue University, advised by Dr. Aniket Kate

My current research interests are in secure distributed computations.

CV Notes

Working paper

Recover from Excessive Faults in BFT SMR. Tiantian Gong*, Gustavo Camilo, Kartik Nayak, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Aniket Kate

Disincentivize Collusion in Verifiable Secret Sharing. Tiantian Gong*, Hai Nguyen*, Hemanta K. Maji, Aniket Kate

V3rified: Revelation vs Non-Revelation Mechanisms for Decentralized Verifiable Computation. Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate, Alexandros Psomas*, Athina Terzoglou*. 📄 [arXiv]

Conference publications

* indicates main contributors; otherwise alphabetical

RSS with Competition.

Tiantian Gong*, Zeyu Liu.

The Case of FBA as a DEX Processing Model. [FC25]

Tiantian Gong*, Zeyu Liu, Aniket Kate.

More is Merrier: Relax the Non-Collusion Assumption in Multi-Server PIR. [SP24]

Tiantian Gong*, Ryan Henry, Alexandros Psomas, Aniket Kate. 📄 [arxiv]

Front-Running Attack in Sharded Blockchains and Fair Cross-Shard Consensus. [NDSS24]

Jianting Zhang*, Wuhui Chen, Sifu Luo, Tiantian Gong, Zicong Hong, Aniket Kate. 

FairPoS: Input Fairness in Permissionless Consensus. [AFT23]

James Chiang, Bernando David, Ittay Eyal, Tiantian Gong. 📄 [eprint]

Towards Overcoming the Undercutting Problem. [FC22]

Tiantian Gong*, Mohsen Minaei, Wenhai Sun, Aniket Kate. 📄 [FC22] [arxiv]

OpenSquare: Decentralized Repeated Modular Squaring Service. [CCS21]

Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan*, Tiantian Gong*, Adithya Bhat, Aniket Kate, Dominique Schröder. 📄 [eprint][talk]

Service

PC: FC 2025, ICDCS 2025, CryptoValley Conference 2025