Kaihua Qin
- Ph.D. Student, Imperial College London
- kaihua.[my last name]@imperial.ac.uk
I’m a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr. Arthur Gervais.
My research interests span blockchains and system security with a recent focus on decentralized finance (DeFi).
DeFi is one of the most promising applications of blockchains.
I’m motivated to understand the risks and vulnerabilities of the DeFi ecosystem.
Many of the DeFi security issues are caused by the inherent properties of blockchains and flawed protocol designs.
In my research, I’m trying to improve the security of DeFi from both the underlying blockchain and the high-level DeFi protocol perspective.
Interests. Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), System Security
Interests. Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), System Security
Publications
[Google Scholar]Preprint
- Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? [arxiv] Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Arthur Gervais
2021
- High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges [arxiv] Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V Le, Arthur Gervais to appear at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2021)
- Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit [arxiv] [blog] Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais to appear at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (FC 21)
2020
- FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange [arxiv] Simon Janin *, Kaihua Qin *, Akaki Mamageishvili, Arthur Gervais in proceedings of the 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (IEEE S&B 2020) * equal contributions
2019
- Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients [arxiv] Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais, Joel Reardon in proceedings of the 2019 Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT 2019)
Report
- An Overview of Blockchain Scalability, Interoperability and Sustainability Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum
Projects
- Blockchain Workbench (https://blockchainworkbench.com/) Blockchain Workbench is a blockchain online learning platform.It aims to provide basic knowledge of blockchains and interactive solidity programming exercises to beginners.It has been used as the solidity educational platform for the blockchain courses at Imperial College London and HSLU.