Liang Junkai

Liang Junkai

Peking University

I am Junkai Liang, a third-year Ph.D. student at Peking University advised by Prof. Zhi Zhang, Prof. Zhonghai Wu and Prof. Qingni Shen. Previously, I got my bachelor degree in Nanjing University in 2022, during which I worked closely with Prof. Yuan Zhang (2020-2022).

My research interests are in the areas of the fault injection attack, cryptographic implementation analysis and zero knowledge.

🔥 News

  • 2025.1:   🎉🎉 Our paper “Achilles: A Formal Framework of Leaking Secrets from Signature Schemes via Rowhammer” (Junkai Liang, Zhi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen, Yansong Gao, Xingliang Yuan, Haiyang Xue, Pengfei Wu, Zhonghai Wu) was accepted in USENIX security 25!
  • 2025.1:   🎉🎉 Our paper “SoK: Understanding zk-SNARKs: The Gap Between Research and Practice” (Junkai Liang, Daqi Hu, Pengfei Wu, Yunbo Yang, Qingni Shen, Zhonghai Wu) was accepted in USENIX security 25!

📝 Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2022 First Prize in 3th Trinity CTF competition in Nanjing University.
  • 2020 Nanjing University Top-notch Program Scholarship.
  • 2019, 2020, 2021 The People’s Scholarship, China.

📖 Educations

  • 2022.08 - present, PhD Student, Computer Science, Peking University.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Computer Science, Nanjing University.

💬 Activities

  • 2024, A reviewer of International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN).
  • 2023 - 2024, I have been reviewing papers World Wide Web Conference (WWW).
  • 2023 - 2024, I have been reviewing papers of ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS).

💬 Open Source Contributions

  • [2024] CVE-2024-31510 Liboqs ML-DSA vulnerability
  • [2024] CVE-2024-28285 Crypto++ Elgamal vulnerability
  • [2024] CVE-2024-2881 Wolfssl EdDSA vulnerability
  • [2024] CVE-2024-1545 WolfSSL RSA vulnerability
  • [2023] CVE-2023-51939 Relic BBS vulnerability


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