About

Shijie Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in School of Computer Science at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT). He received the Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in June 2025 (supervised by Prof. Jiang Xiao). His research interests include blockchain scalability and blockchain security. His research outcomes have been published in premier journals and conferences including VLDB, ICDE, INFOCOM, ICDCS, SRDS, TKDE, TDSC, etc. He also serves as a youth editor of the Blockchain journal and as an external reviewer for TDSC, TIFS, TMC, TSC, etc.

News

2026.5 One paper is accepted by IEEE TDSC.
2026.4 One paper is accepted by IEEE TKDE.
2025.12 One paper is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM.

Publications (*=corresponding author)

Lingyan Xue, Haiping Huang, Jiankuo Dong, Fu Xiao, and Shijie Zhang. Quantum-Resistant Data Sharing Scheme with Auditability for Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2026. (CCF A)
Ru Cheng, Yifan Zhou, Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang, Haoyu Dong, Hai Jin, and Bo Li. Furion: Efficient and Atomic Cross-Blockchain Transactions Through Multi-Future Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2026. (CCF A)
Cunyang Liu, Jiang Xiao, Haoyu Dong, Ru Cheng, Yifan Zhou, Shijie Zhang, and Hai Jin. JiangZiya: Dependency-aware Smart Contract Migration for Scalable Sharded Blockchains. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’26), 2026. (CCF A)
Yifan Zhou, Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang, and Hai Jin. MorphDAG: elastic DAG-based blockchains at scale. Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2026. (CCF B)
Shijie Zhang, Ru Cheng, Xinpeng Liu, Jiang Xiao, Hai Jin, and Bo Li. Seer: Accelerating Blockchain Transaction Execution by Fine-Grained Branch Prediction. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB’25), 2025. (CCF A)
Binhong Li, Licheng Lin, Shijie Zhang*, Jianliang Xu, Jiang Xiao*, Bo Li, and Hai Jin. FlexIM: Efficient and Verifiable Index Management in Blockchain. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025. (CCF A)
Yuandi Cai, Ru Cheng, Yifan Zhou, Shijie Zhang*, Jiang Xiao*, and Hai Jin. Enabling complete atomicity for cross-chain applications through layered state commitments. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS’24), 2024. (CCF B)
Shijie Zhang, Jiang Xiao, Enping Wu, Feng Cheng, Bo Li, Wei Wang, and Hai Jin. MorphDAG: A Workload-Aware Elastic DAG-Based Blockchain. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024. (CCF A)
Junpei Ni, Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang, Bo Li, Baochun Li, and Hai Jin. FLUID: Towards Efficient Continuous Transaction Processing in DAG-based Blockchains. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023. (CCF A)
Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Bo Li, Xiaohai Dai, and Hai Jin. Nezha: Exploiting Concurrency for Transaction Processing in DAG-based Blockchains. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’22), 2022. (CCF B)
Rui Han, Jiang Xiao, Xiaohai Dai, Shijie Zhang, Yi Sun, Baochun Li, and Hai Jin. Vassago: Efficient and Authenticated Provenance Query on Multiple Blockchains. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS’21), 2021. (CCF B)
Shijie Zhang, Jong-Hyouk Lee. Analysis of the main consensus protocols of blockchain. ICT Express, 2021.
Shijie Zhang, Jong-Hyouk Lee. Mitigations on sybil-based double-spend attacks in bitcoin. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2021.
Shijie Zhang, Jong-Hyouk Lee. A Group Signature and Authentication Scheme for Blockchain-Based Mobile-Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020. (CCF C)
Shijie Zhang, Jong-Hyouk Lee. Eclipse-based Stake-Bleeding Attacks in PoS Blockchain Systems. In Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BCSI’19), 2019.
Shijie Zhang, Jong-Hyouk Lee. Double-spending with a Sybil attack in the Bitcoin decentralized network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019. (CCF C)

Honors and Awards

First Prize in the 1st International Meta-Computing Competition, Team leader, 2024
Activist for Social Practice, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2023
Merit Postgraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2022
Zhixing Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2022

Teaching

Network Attacks and Defends, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2026 Autumn.
Blockchain Finance, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2026 Spring.

Professional Service

Technical Program Committee Member: ACM BCSI 2020–2025, IEEE ICDLT 2025, IEEE ICCE 2019, IEEE ISCT 2019…
Journal Peer Reviewer: IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMC, IEEE TSC, FCS, BCRA…