Kaihua Qin

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Kaihua Qin

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
kaihua[at]qin[dot]ac

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. Before joining Warwick, I conducted research at Yale University with Prof. Fan Zhang and Prof. Zhong Shao.

I earned my PhD at Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof. Arthur Gervais. Prior to that, I received my MSc from Imperial College London and my BE from Southeast University.

I co-founded Decentralized Intelligence (D23E), where we advance decentralization and intelligence.

Research

Decentralized Systems

Securing blockchains and other decentralized systems, with focuses on information security, distributed computing, and applied cryptography.

Cryptoeconomics

Bringing together game theory, mechanism design, and causal inference to align incentives and ensure resilient decentralized finance.

AI for Security

Applying AI to enhance cybersecurity, including automating threat detection and vulnerability management.

Security of AI

Safeguarding machine learning models against adversarial attacks, privacy breaches, and other threats.

🚀 PhD Positions Available - Currently Recruiting!

I'm actively recruiting PhD students for my research group. If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in my research areas, please feel free to reach out with your CV at Kaihua[dot]Qin[at]warwick.ac.uk.

Funding: Various funding opportunities are available. Please speak to me directly to discuss the options. Note that I may not respond to every inquiry.

Bibliometrics can be found on Google Scholar.

2025 â–¼

  • SIGMETRICS 25 Blockchain Amplification Attack
    Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin
    arXiv
  • ISSTA 25 Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs
    Kaihua Qin, Zhe Ye, Zhun Wang, Weilin Li, Liyi Zhou, Chao Zhang, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
    arXiv
  • S&P 25 Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
    Maggie Yongqi Guan, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Molly Zhuangtong Huang, Kaihua Qin, Yang Wang, Kanye Ye Wang
    ePrint

2024 â–¼

  • WWW 24 Blockchain censorship
    Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, others
    arXiv
  • AFT 24 DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance
    Rundong Gan, Liyi Zhou, Le Wang, Kaihua Qin, Xiaodong Lin
  • Security 24 Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks In Ethereum
    Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
    ePrint
  • ICBC 24 What Drives the (In) stability of a Stablecoin?
    Yujin Potter, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Philipp Jovanovic, Christine Parlour, Arthur Gervais, Dawn Song
    arXiv

2023 â–¼

  • FC 23 Mitigating decentralized finance liquidations with reversible call options
    Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
    arXiv
  • WWW 23 On how zero-knowledge proof blockchain mixers improve, and worsen user privacy
    Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Lifeng Gao, Pascal Berrang, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
    arXiv
  • S&P 23 Sok: Decentralized finance (defi) attacks
    Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
    arXiv
  • Security 23 The blockchain imitation game
    Kaihua Qin, Stefanos Chaliasos, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
    arXiv | Blog
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