GPoS: Geospatially-aware Proof of Stake
· ACM Transactions on the Web · 2026
2019–2026
How decentralized are blockchains, really?
Publications
Decentralization in PoS Blockchain Consensus: Quantification and Advancement
· IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 2025
Where to Place Your TEE? In Search of a Censorship-Resilient Design for Rollup Sequencers
· OPODIS 2025 · LIPIcs · 2025
How Does Stake Distribution Influence Consensus? Analyzing Blockchain Decentralization
· IEEE ICBC · 2024Best Paper Award candidate
Delay Towers to Bootstrap Blockchains
· IEEE ICBC · 2024
Reaching Consensus in the Byzantine Empire: A Comprehensive Review of BFT Consensus Algorithms
· ACM Computing Surveys · 56(5) · 2024
SoK: Decentralized Sequencers for Rollups
· arXiv · preprint · 2023
Analyzing Geospatial Distribution in Blockchains
· IEEE DAPPS · 202318.5% acceptance rate
V-Guard: An Efficient Permissioned Blockchain for Achieving Consensus under Dynamic Memberships in V2X
· arXiv · preprint · 2023
Blockchain for V2X: Applications and Architectures
· IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology · 3, 193–209 · 2022
Reward Mechanism for Blockchains Using Evolutionary Game Theory
· BRAINS · 2021
Talks
Analyzing Geospatial Distribution in Blockchains
IEEE DAPPS · Athens, GreeceConference website
Unveiling Geospatial Centralization: A Hidden Threat to Blockchain Decentralization
Blockchain Technology Symposium · VirtualEvent program
Reward Mechanism for Blockchains Using Evolutionary Game Theory
BRAINSEvent program
Teaching & service
Teaching & mentoringHelping students build understanding.
Distributed Computing
Teaching Assistant in Winter 2020; Lab Head TA in Winter 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Introduction to Software Engineering
Teaching Assistant in Winter and Fall 2021; Head TA in Winter 2022 and 2023.
Business of Software
Winter 2022, Fall 2022, and Winter 2023.
Software Design
Fall 2020 and Summer 2022.
Empirical Software Engineering
Winter 2022 and Winter 2023.
Software Engineering
Senior-year Design Projects
Co-supervised undergraduate design projects in 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, and 2022–23.
Community & serviceECEGSS President
- President of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Students’ Society at the University of Toronto.
- Served on the UTGSU Board of Directors (2019–2021) and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Faculty Council (2020–2021).
Facilitated Grad Step Up sessions for incoming international graduate students, covering healthcare, university resources, and communication (2020–2021).
Research in practiceIndustry and open-source work
Movement Labs
WebsiteWrote the white paper and designed the Movement network architecture. Contributed to early technical-team planning, hiring, partner management, and educational content.
Matter Labs · zkSync
WebsiteResearched decentralized sequencers for Layer 2 systems, with an emphasis on zk-rollups. Built consensus benchmarking tools with extensions for trusted execution environments.
0L Network
WebsiteDesigned and analyzed standard-library modules in Move, participated in network genesis, and ran validator operations for a year.
Fellowships
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Student Fellowship
University of Toronto
Graduate Fellowship
Schwartz Reisman Institute of Technology and Society
Dragon boating
Gold
Canadian National Dragon Boating Competitions
Bronze
Canadian National Dragon Boating Competitions