Duc Le

Staff Research Scientist

Research areas:  Applied Cryptography, Privacy, and Distributed System

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Biography

Dr. Duc V. Le joined Visa Research as a Staff Research Scientist in February 2023. In August 2021, Duc received his Ph.D. from Purdue University working on Privacy and Applied Cryptography-related problems for blockchain systems. Prior to joining Visa Research, Duc worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bern working on formal security analysis of the longest-chain blockchain protocols (Filecoin, Bitcoin, and Ouroboros).

As a member of the cryptocurrencies team, Duc's research focuses on developing practical privacy-preserving solutions for blockchains, proposing interoperability designs between blockchains, and conducting formal security analyses of blockchain systems. He has published his research in top privacy, security, and distributed systems conferences, including the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), IEEE Security and Privacy (SP), conference on principles of distributed systems (OPODIS), and others.

Publications

  1. Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le, Marko Vukolic, Luca Zanolini. “Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast” International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022).
  2.  Duc V. Le, Arthur Gervais. “AMR: Autonomous coin mixer with privacy preserving reward distribution” Association for Computing Machinery Advances in Financial Technologies 2021 (ACM AFT 2021).
  3. Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V Le, Arthur Gervais. “High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges”. IEEE Symposium onSecurity and Privacy 2021 (IEEE S&P 2021)
  4. Duc V. Le, Lizzy Tengana Hurtado, Adil Ahmad, Mohsen Minaei, Byoungyoung Lee, Aniket Kate. “A tale of two trees: one writes, and other reads: optimized oblivious accesses to bitcoin and other UTXO-based Blockchains” Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2021 (PETS 2021)
  5. Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Arthur Blue, Duc V. Le, Sarang Noether, Brandon Goodell, Aniket Kate. “DLSAG: non-interactive refund transactions for interoperable payment channels in monero”. Financial Cryptography 2020 (FC 2020)
  6. Duc V. Le, Mahimna Kelkar, Aniket Kate. “Flexible signatures: making authentication suitable for real-time environments”. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2019 (ESORICS 2019)