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Blockchain: Scam or Future?

  • LecturerProf. Eric Lo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    Host: De-Nian Yang
  • Time2018-11-15 (Thu.) 10:00 ~ 12:00
  • LocationConference room 101 at IIS new Building
Abstract

Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. However, many other applications also claim to be disrupted by blockchain, including healthcare, insurance, Internet of Things, etc.  In this talk, I will present the minimal background of blockchain that helps one to judge whether an application really needs blockchain or not.  Furthermore, I will present some research opportunities of blockchain in terms of (i) distributed systems, (ii) security, (iii) database, and (iv) economic.  Lastly, I will present one of my new research projects on blockchain.

BIO

Eric Lo is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).  He received his M.Phil degree from the University of Hong Kong in 2005 and his PhD degree from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2006.  Before returning to Hong Kong, he worked at Google and Microsoft.  His recent research focuses on data processing on modern hardware, distributed machine learning, and blockchain.  He has been the program committee members of all major data engineering conferences and was the program vice chairs of CIKM’18 and ICDE’18.  His research works have thrice selected as bests of conferences (VLDB’05, ICDE’12, and DASFAA’14).