Ling Ren
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
(217) 244-0761
4312 Siebel Center for Comp Sci
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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