Luu The Loi (Loi Luu)
Contact Phone: (+65) 93443602
Information Linkedin: [Link]
E-mail: loiluu@[Link]
Introduction Loi Luu is a co-founder and CEO of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity protocol for cryptocurren-
cies that powers various applications including decentralized exchanges, index funds, cryptocurrency
payments and so on. He also earned his PhD from National University of Singapore where he did
research on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. His re-
searches got applied into several blockchain projects in the space including Ethereum, Zilliqa, Melon
Protocol, Augur that collectively have billions of USD marketcap.
Education • National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D., Computer Science, August 2014 – January 2018
• Thesis: “TOWARDS SECURE PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN PROTOCOLS AT SCALE”
• Advisor : Dr. Prateek Saxena
• Vietnam National Univ., Hanoi, Vietnam
B.S., Computer Science, August 2009 – June 2013
• GPA: 3.62/4.0, Honor Programme, Highest Distinction
• Thesis: “Implement Breath First Search and Experiment with Search Algorithms on KLEE”
• Thesis advisors: Dr. Hoang T. Anh
Selected • MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35, Asia Pacific, 2019.
Honors
• Forbes Asia 30 Under 30, Finance & Venture Capital track 2018
and Awards
• Forbes Vietnam 30 Under 30 2018
• Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award 2017
NUS School of Computing.
• Microsoft Research Asia Graduate Fellowship 2016
• President Graduate Fellowship 2014-2017
National University of Singapore.
Projects • Elastico. The first sharding protocol to scale up transaction rate in public blockchains.
• Inspires Zilliqa, a new public blockchain.
• Commercialized and Deployed at an (undisclosed) financial institution in Aug 2016
• Kyber Network. An on-chain liquidity protocol that powers various cryptocurrency applications
and raise 52 Million USD in September 2017.
• Oyente. The first open source analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts, used by various industry
projects (e.g. Quantstamp, Augur, Melonport).
• SmartPool. An open source decentralized mining pool protocol for cryptocurrencies.
Peer-reviewed 1. Loi Luu, Yaron Velner, Jason Teutsch, Prateek Saxena . SMARTPOOL: Practical Decentral-
Publication ized Pooled Mining. The 26th USENIX Security Symposium (UsenixSec’17) (Acceptance
rate 16.28%).
• Launched as a community project.
• Deployed on the main Ethereum network and has found over 100 blocks and counting.
2. Loi Luu, Viswesh Narayanan, Chaodong Zheng, Kunal Baweja, Seth Gilbert, Prateek Saxena.
A Secure Sharding Protocol For Blockchains. The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS’16) (Acceptance rate 16.5%).
3. Loi Luu, Duc-Hiep Chu, Hrishi Olickel, Prateek Saxena, Aquinas Hobor. Making Smart
Contracts Smarter. The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS’16) (Acceptance rate 16.5%).
• The code is opensource and maintained by MelonPort.
• The paper is well received by the community. See this Reddit post.
• On the news: CoinDesk.
4. Loi Luu, Jason Teutsch, Raghav Kulkarni and Prateek Saxena. Demystifying incentives in the
consensus computer. The 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS’15) (Acceptance rate 19.4%).
• The paper has inluenced the future design of Ethereum cryptocurrency. See this blog post.
• Great discussion about the paper on Reddit.
5. Loi Luu, Ratul Saha, Inian Parameshwaran, Prateek Saxena and Aquinas Hobor. On Power
Splitting Games in Distributed Computation: The Case of Bitcoin Pooled Mining, The 28th
IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF’15) (Acceptance rate 34.3%).
6. Loi Luu, Shweta Shinde, Prateek Saxena and Brian Demsky. A Model Counter for Constraints
Over Unbounded Strings, The 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Lan-
guage Design and Implementation (PLDI’14) (Acceptance rate 18.1%).
7. Loi Luu, . Smart Contracts Make Bitcoin Mining Pools Vulnerable. To appear at the 4th
Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research (BITCOIN’17).
Professional 1. Research Intern June 2017 - August 2017
Experience Visa Research
2. Research Intern November 2016 - Jan 2017
Ethereum Foundation
3. Scientific advisor for several financial institutions April 2016 - November 2016
Anquan Capital
4. Research Assistant Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
National University of Singapore
References Dr. Prateek Saxena (advisor) Vitalik Buterin
Assistant Professor Founder, Chief Scientist
School of Computing Ethereum Foundation
National University of Singapore Email: v@[Link]
Email: prateeks@[Link]
