Tianyu Zhang 张天宇

I am interested in cryptography and blockchain, particularly zk-SNARKs right now.

Email: tianyuz@illinois.edu

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Education

2025-Present: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Yupeng Zhang

2021-2025: B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Yu Yu and Prof. Yuncong Hu

Publications

Dynark: Making Groth16 Dynamic
[eprint]
Tianyu Zhang, Yupeng Ouyang, Yupeng Zhang FairZK: A Scalable System to Prove Machine Learning Fairness in Zero-Knowledge
[IEEE S&P 2025] [paper] [code]
Tianyu Zhang, Shen Dong, O. Deniz Kose, Yanning Shen, Yupeng Zhang HasteBoots: Proving FHE Bootstrapping in Seconds
[eprint] [paper]
Fengrun Liu, Haofei Liang, Tianyu Zhang, Yuncong Hu, Xiang Xie, Haisheng Tan, Yu Yu

Miscellaneous

I enjoy music and movie. In Music is Our Friend (Live in Washington and Albany, 2021) , Frobert Fripp said, "The world is different, but music remains hope for us all" and here are some pieces of music make me believe the statement is true

Feel free to email me with any ideas or music recommendations :)