Ling Ren

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• Ling Ren's Google Scholar

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, August 2019 -- present

Research Interests

• Security and Privacy
• Secure Distributed Algorithms
• Cryptography

Research Honors

• Test-of-Time Award at CCS (2023)
• Chaincode Lab Bitcoin Research Prize (2023)
• Google Research Scholar Award (2023)
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (2022)
• Best Paper Runner-up at CCS (2021)
• Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security at ICCAD (2018)
• Best Student Paper Award at CCS (2013 )

Recent Courses Taught

• CS 461 (ECE 422) - Computer Security I
• CS 591 SP - Security and Privacy
• CS 598 CAL (CS 598 LR) - Consensus Algorithms
• CS 598 FTD - Fault-Tolerant Dist Algorithms
• ECE 526 (CS 539) - Distributed Algorithms