Jianbo Gao | Beijing Jiaotong University

Jianbo Gao (高健博) 中文版

Associate Professor

School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University.
Email: gao AT bjtu.edu.cn

Jianbo Gao is an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Blockchain Research Center, Peking University. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2021 and 2016, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Chen. His research interests include blockchain scalability, smart contract security, and blockchain regulation. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers at top conferences and journals, and served as program committee member in blockchain academic conferences. His research results have been applied in many blockchain platforms such as ChainMaker, Ethereum Classic, and Boya Regchain.

Education and Experience

Jun. 2024 - , Associate Professor, School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University.
Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2024, Postdoc, School of Computer Science, Peking University.
Sept. 2016 - Jul. 2021, Ph.D in Computer Software and Theory (advisor: Prof. Zhong Chen), Peking University.
Sept. 2012 - Jul. 2016, Bachelor in Computer Science (with minor in Business Administration), Peking University.

Research Interests

Blockchain Performance and Scalability: Cross-Chain, Sharding, Off-Chain Storage, Decentralized Identity, Consensus, Oracle Network.
Blockchain and Smart Contract Security: Smart Contract Vulnerability, Blockchain Infrastructure Security, Privacy Leakage.
Blockchain Regulation: Regulatory Automation, Address Recognition, Transaction Analysis.

Research Funding

PI, Multi-Layer Regulatory Mechanism Supporting Cross-Border and Cross-Chain Regulation, National Key Research and Development Program of China.
PI, Research on Scalability Technologies of Consortium Blockchain, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
PI, Privacy Protection and Trusted Governance of Digital City Data Based on Blockchain and IPv6, Ministry of Science and Technology.
PI, Research on Key Technologies of Blockchain Scalability, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing.

Academic Publications

Demystifying and Detecting Cryptographic Defects in Ethereum Smart Contracts.
Jiashuo Zhang, Yiming Shen, Jiachi Chen*, Jianzhong Su, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Jianbo Gao*, Zhong Chen*.
In the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25), 2025.

ContractTinker: LLM-Empowered Vulnerability Repair for Real-World Smart Contracts.
Che Wang, Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao*, Libin Xia, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'24), Demo Track, 2024.

Understanding and Detecting Privacy Leakage Vulnerabilities in Hyperledger Fabric Chaincodes.
Ziming Chen, Yue Li, Jianbo Gao, Jiashuo Zhang, Ke Wang, Jianbin Hu, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 35th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'24), 2024.

Cross-Domain Data Trading System Based on Decentralized Identity.
Jiakun Hao, Peng Xiang, Yifei He, Jianbo Gao, Zhi Guan, Anming Xie, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Computer Research and Development. 2024. (In Chinese)

SolaSim: Clone Detection for Solana Smart Contracts via Program Representation.
Che Wang, Yue Li, Jianbo Gao*, Ke Wang, Jiashuo Zhang, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 32nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'24), 2024.

CryptCoder: An Automatic Code Generator for Cryptographic Tasks in Ethereum Smart Contracts.
Libin Xia, Jiashuo Zhang, Che Wang, Zezhong Tan, Jianbo Gao*, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 31st International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER'24), Demo Track, 2024.

A Sharding Blockchain-based UAV System for Search and Rescue Missions.
Xihan Zhang, Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao*, Libin Xia, Zhi Guan, Hao Hu, Zhong Chen.
Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025, 19(3): 193805.

FedTop: a constraint-loosed federated learning aggregation method against poisoning attack.
Che Wang, Zhenhao Wu, Jianbo Gao*, Jiashuo Zhang, Junjie Xia, Feng Gao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
Frontiers of Computer Science, 2024.

When Contracts Meets Crypto: Exploring Developers' Struggles with Ethereum Cryptographic APIs.
Jiashuo Zhang, Jiachi Chen, Zhiyuan Wan, Ting Chen, Jianbo Gao, Zhong Chen.
In the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'24), 2024.

XGuard: Detecting Inconsistency Behaviors of Crosschain Bridges.
Ke Wang, Yue Li, Che Wang, Jianbo Gao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'24), Demo Track, 2024.

RollupNet: Trustless State Channels for Real-time Cross Rollup Contract Execution.
Ke Wang, Yue Li, Jianbo Gao, Che Wang, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'24), Poster Track, 2024.

Research on Safety and Security Assurance Architecture for Digital Twin City Infrastructure.
Hanrui Feng, Anming Xie, Jianbo Gao, Junjie Xia, Feng Gao, Tingting Du, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Information Security Research. 2024. (In Chinese)

Siguard: Detecting Signature-Related Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts.
Jiashuo Zhang, Yue Li, Jianbo Gao*, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'23), Demo Track, 2023.

Accelerating Block Lifecycle on Blockchain via Hardware Transactional Memory.
Yue Li, Han Liu, Jianbo Gao*, Jiashuo Zhang, Zhi Guan*, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2023, 104779.

Hades: Practical Decentralized Identity with Full Accountability and Fine-grained Sybil-resistance.
Ke Wang, Jianbo Gao*, Qiao Wang, Jiashuo Zhang, Yue Li, Zhi Guan*, Zhong Chen.
In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'23), 2023.

DFHelper: Help clients to participate in federated learning tasks.
Zhenhao Wu, Jianbo Gao*, Jiashuo Zhang, Yue Li, Qingshan Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
Applied Intelligence, 2023, 53:12749-12773.

TDID: Transparent and Efficient Decentralized Identity Management with Blockchain.
Jiakun Hao, Jianbo Gao*, Peng Xiang, Jiashuo Zhang, Ziming Chen, Hao Hu, Zhong Chen.
In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'23), 2023.

Detection Method for Rule Conflicts in RegLang Regulatory Contracts.
Jianbo Gao, Jiashuo Zhang, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
Computer Engineering, 2023, 49(5): 12-21,28. (In Chinese)

Didapper: A Practical and Auditable On-Chain Identity Service for Decentralized Applications.
Libin Xia, Jiashuo Zhang, Xihan Zhang, Yue Li, Jianbo Gao*, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, 2023.

Privacy Protection Scheme for Epidemiological Investigation Based on Blockchain Technology.
Ya Han, Jianbo Gao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference, 2023.

Intelligent New Energy Vehicle Battery Swap Scheme Based on Blockchain Technology.
Ya Han, Jianbo Gao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen, Lifeng Ren.
In International Conference on Blockchain Technology, 2023.

Xscope: Hunting for Cross-Chain Bridge Attacks.
Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao*, Yue Li, Ziming Chen, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'22), Demo Track, 2022.

Make Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification Go Further: Step into The Long-Document-Level.
Zhenhao Wu, Jianbo Gao, Qingshan Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
Applied Intelligence, 2022, 52: 8428–8447.

TBFT: Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance Using Trusted Execution Environment.
Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao*, Ke Wang, Zhenhao Wu, Yue Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), 2022.

Smifier: A Smart Contract Verifier for Composite Transactions.
Yu Dong, Yue Li, Dongqi Cui, Jianbo Gao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'22), 2022.

ChainDB: Ensuring Integrity of Querying Off-Chain Data on Blockchain.
Jianbo Gao, Jiashuo Zhang, Yue Li, Jiakun Hao, Ke Wang, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 2022.
Best Presentation Award

PShard: A Practical Sharding Protocol for Enterprise Blockchain.
Jianbo Gao, Jiashuo Zhang, Yue Li, Jiakun Hao, Ke Wang, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 2022.

RegLang:A Smart Contract Programming Language for Regulation.
Jianbo Gao, Jiashuo Zhang, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
Computer Science, 2022, 49(6A): 462-468. (In Chinese)

FastBlock: Accelerating Blockchains via Hardware Transactional Memory.
Yue Li, Han Liu, Yuanliang Chen, Jianbo Gao, Zhenhao Wu, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'21), 2021.

Blockchain-based Multi-recipient Multi-message Signcryption Scheme.
Lipeng Wang, Jianbo Gao, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Software, 2021, 32(11): 3606-3627. (In Chinese)

TrustCross: Enabling Confidential Interoperability across Blockchains Using Trusted Hardware.
Ying Lan, Jianbo Gao*, Yue Li, Ke Wang, Yuesheng Zhu, Zhong Chen.
In International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 2021.

Research on Security Technologies in Data Security Governance.
Zhenhao Wu, Jianbo Gao, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Information Security Research, 2021, 7(10): 907-914. (In Chinese)
Outstanding Paper of 2021-2022

EShield: Protect Smart Contracts against Reverse Engineering.
Wentian Yan, Jianbo Gao, Zhenhao Wu, Yue Li, Zhi Guan, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
In ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'20), Demo Track, 2020.

Kaya: A Testing Framework for Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications.
Zhenhao Wu, Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao, Yue Li, Qingshan Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'20), Demo Track, 2020.

Mining DApp Repositories: Towards In-Depth Comprehension and Accurate Classification.
Yeming Lin, Jianbo Gao, Tong Li, Jingguo Ge, Hongbin Shi.
In the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'20), 2020.

SEdroid: A Robust Android Malware Detector using Selective Ensemble Learning.
Ji Wang, Qi Jing, Jianbo Gao, Xuanwei Qiu.
In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'20), 2020.

Studying gas exceptions in blockchain-based cloud applications.
Chao Liu, Jianbo Gao, Yue Li, Huihui Wang, Zhong Chen.
Journal of Cloud Computing, 2020, 9(35): 1-25.

EasyFlow: Keep Ethereum Away From Overflow.
Jianbo Gao, Han Liu, Chao Liu, Qingshan Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'19), Demo Track, 2019.

Guided, Automated Testing of Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications.
Jianbo Gao.
In the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'19), ACM SRC Track, 2019.

Towards Automated Testing of Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications.
Jianbo Gao, Han Liu, Yue Li, Chao Liu, Zhiqiang Yang, Qingshan Li, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen.
In the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'19), 2019.

Deanonymizing Tor in a Stealthy Way.
Jianjun Lin, Jianbo Gao, Zhenhao Wu, Chengxiang Si, Bo Sun.
In International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'19), 2019.

Understanding Out of Gas Exceptions on Ethereum.
Chao Liu, Jianbo Gao, Yue Li, Zhong Chen.
In International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, 2019.

Performance Analysis of the Libra Blockchain: An Experimental Study.
Jiashuo Zhang, Jianbo Gao, Zhenhao Wu, Wentian Yan, Qize Wu, Qingshan Li, Zhong Chen.
In IEEE International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking, 2019.

Patents

Blockchain side chain creation method and interaction method for drones (CN202410389774.1)

A smart contract modeling and translation method for domain-specific problems (CN202410511291.4)

Privacy contract construction method and code generation system based on CryptLang (CN202410245232.7)

A blockchain identity data control method and device based on group signature and attribute encryption (CN202410367321.9)

A blockchain network covert channel detection method and device (CN202410367291.1)

A secret data calculation method and device based on blockchain and homomorphic encryption (CN202410367233.9)

A blockchain covert communication method and system based on ECDSA subliminal channel (CN202410367225.4)

Blockchain data chain insertion and query method and blockchain system (CN202310126434.5)

Blockchain sharding method and system based on two-phase lock (CN202310082938.1)

Cold chain traceability method and system based on blockchain and verifiable database (CN202311241310.8)

A regulatory contract rule conflict detection method (CN202211667778.9)

A private equity fund share transfer platform and method based on blockchain (CN202210891746.0)

Blockchain regulatory contract construction method and blockchain system based on RegLang (CN202210420316.0)

A method for trusted federated learning based on blockchain (CN202210127941.6)

Federated meta-learning method, server and electronic equipment for training with a small amount of data (CN202211711793.9)

Vertical federated learning method and system for balancing the differences in survey data of all parties (CN202211699464.7)

A new Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus method based on a trusted execution environment (CN202111271026.6)

A cross-chain system and method based on a trusted execution environment (CN202111270538.0)

A smart contract virtual machine based on Webassembly bytecode (CN202111658402.7)

A vulnerability detection method for Go language chain code (CN202111654617.1)

Cloud data integrity audit method based on blockchain (CN202111271014.3)

Terminal logistics network layout method, device, equipment and medium based on genetic algorithm (CN202110439333.4)

A supervision method for smart contract behavior (CN202010211697.2)

A smart contract security enhancement method (CN202010211696.8)

An automated management method for Java class hot update (CN202010216486.8)

An image protection method for image recognition based on deep learning neural network (CN202010211679.4)

Electronic contract associability analysis and verification method based on blockchain and biometrics (CN201911259293.4)

A unified method for distributed government architecture based on blockchain (CN201911258172.8)

A network loan contract supervision system and method based on blockchain (CN201911080008.2)

A smart contract vulnerability detection method (CN201911080006.3)

A data analysis method for blockchain system (CN201911079968.7)

A method for sentiment judgment of associated entities based on diffusion propagation model (CN201811283258.1)

A method for representing large amounts of information in text for neural network input (CN201811283253.9)

A parallel processing classification method based on a multi-layer LSTM model (CN201811283244.X)

A script engine system and test method for automated testing of mobile terminals (CN201610066512.7)

An Android malware detection method based on permission combination (CN201610064024.2)

Invited Talks

Title: Market Allocation of Data Elements and Regulatory System Construction.
The 5th China Data Security Governance Summit Forum, 27 May, 2022.

Title: Blockchain Empowers Government Service and Regulatory Technology Innovation.
Invited Report, Changchun, China, 1 December, 2019. (Invited by Jilin Association for Science and Technology)

Title: The Innovation Potential and Practice of Edge Computing + Blockchain in the Age of Everything Connected.
2019 CCF China Blockchain Conference, Chengdu, China, 11-13 October, 2019.

Title: Automated Mining Methods for Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts.
TFC 2018 International Cybersecurity Contest and Summit, Chengdu, China, 16-17 November, 2018.

Title: GoldenEye-AI: Public Opinion Monitoring and Analysis Based on Deep Learning
TiD Conference 2018, Beiing, China, 15-18 July, 2018.

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Contributor, ChainMaker, 2024
Science and Technology Award for Promoting Urban Development, China Urban Development Research Association, 2023
Best Presentation Award, ICBTA, 2022
Outstanding Paper of 2021-2022, Journal of Information Security Research, 2022
Yang Fuqing & Wang Yangyuan Academician Scholarship, Peking University, 2020
Merit Student Pacesetter, Peking University, 2020
National Scholarship, Peking University, 2019
Merit Student Pacesetter, Peking University, 2019
New Star Award of 30 New Generation Digital Economy Talents, World Internet Conference, 2019
Award for Academic Excellents, Peking University, 2018
Merit Student, Peking University, 2017
TP-LINK Scholarship, Peking University, 2017
Merit Student, Peking University, 2015
Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Peking University, 2015

Teaching

Theoretical Foundations in Blockchain Technology (Undergraduate), TA, Fall 2018/Fall 2019/Fall 2022
Algorithm Design and Analysis (Undergraduate), TA, Spring 2019/Spring 2021
Network and Information Security (Graduate), TA, Spring 2019
Introduction to Information Security (Undergraduate), TA, Fall 2017

Last update: Sept. 7, 2024