Short Bio

Yibo Wang is a Ph.D. student in the FSSL Lab of Computer Science at Syracuse University advised by Dr. Yuzhe Tang. He received his B.E. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

His research interest lies in systems security, software engineering, and performance optimization in blockchains and other emerging distributed/decentralized systems.

His dissertation research tackles automatic design-flaw discovery via fuzzing (USENIX Security’24), denial of service security (S&P’25, CCS’21), cost optimization (FSE’21, TSE’23), and network measurement (IMC’21), all in permissionless blockchains, like Ethereum.

Openings: Yibo Wang will join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wyoming as an assistant professor in 2025 Fall. He is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students and master students to join his group. If you are interested, please send an email to wangyibo0308@gmail.com with your CV and transcripts attached.

Publications

• Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, Yibo Wang. Asymmetric Mempool DoS Security: Formal Definitions and Provable Secure Designs, S&P’25.
• Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Wanning Ding, Zhihua Yang. Understanding Ethereum Mempool Security under Asymmetric DoS by Symbolized Stateful Fuzzing, USENIX Security’24. [slides]
• Yibo Wang, Qi Zhang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen. iBatch: Saving Ethereum Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations, ESEC/FSE’21. [slides]
  • An extension of this work is published in TSE’23. [pdf]
• Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang. DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices, CCS’21. [slides]
• Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang. Enabling Cost-Effective Blockchain Applications via Workload-Adaptive Transaction Execution, Poster CCS’22.
• Yuxuan Zhou, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang and G. Gu. Towards Understanding Crypto-Asset Risks on Ethereum Caused by Key Leakage on the Internet, WebConf’24 short.
• Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Li. Understanding the Security Risks of Decentralized Exchanges by Uncovering Unfair Trades in the Wild, Euro S&P’23.
• Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Jiaqi Chen. Ethical Challenges in Blockchain Measurement Research, EthiCS’23.
• Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Xianghong Liu. TopoShot: Uncovering Ethereum’s Network Topology Leveraging Replacement Transactions, IMC’21.
• Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu. Scalable Log Auditing on Private Blockchains via Lightweight Log-Fork Prevention, SERIAL@Middleware’20.

Services

• Program Committee Member
  • The Web Conference 2025
• Reviewer
  • TOSEM 2025
  • Computer Communications 2024
  • The Web Conference 2024
  • TDSC 2022

Achievements & Certifications

• Academic Awards
  • USENIX Security’24 Grant, USENIX Security, 08/2024
  • CCS’22 workshop registration fellowship, Protocol Lab, 10/2022
  • USENIX Security’21 Grant, USENIX Security, 07/2021
  • Student Registration Grant, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 05/2021
  • Graduate Award (50% tuition scholarship), Syracuse University, 08/2017
• Bug Bounties
  • Bug report for Go-Ethereum, awarded $12,000, 2021
  • Bug report for Open-Ethereum, awarded $8,000, 2021
  • Bug report for Go-Ethereum, awarded $2,000, 2022
  • Bug report for Erigon and Nethermind, awarded $4,000, 2023
  • Bug report for Flashbot, awarded $200, 2023
• Certifications
  • NSF I-Corps Regional Course, 2024
• Grants & Research Funding
  • Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI): DoS-Secure Transaction Propagation on Ethereum: Exploit Generation and Attack Detection.
    Grant from Ethereum Ecosystem Support Program, 2022