Curriculum Vitae

Education

M.Eng. in Cyberspace Security, Wuhan University, Sep 2022 -- Jun 2025
B.Eng. in Information Security, China University of Geosciences, Sep 2018 -- Jun 2022

Y. Lei, Y. Xiang, Q. Wang, R. Dowsley, T. H. Yuen, K.-K. R. Choo, and J. Yu, "Large Language Models for Cryptocurrency Transaction Analysis: A Bitcoin Case Study," arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.18158, 2025. (submitted to ACM SIGKDD 2025)
Y. Lei, K. Jiang, Z. Wang, Y. Cao, H. Lin, and L. Chen, "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Task Offloading in Internet-of-Vehicles," in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, 2024, pp. 1-6.
Y. Lei, Z. Wang, M. Zhao, Y. Cao, and W. Lim, "Peer-Aware and Fair-Play Decentralized Task Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing: A Multi-Agent Learning Framework," China Communications, 2025 (under major revision).
N. Liu, Y. Lei, W. Ren, L. Zhang, X. Zhang, and T. Zhu, "zk-Guard: A Privacy-Preserving Access Control Framework Based on zk-SNARKs and Blockchain for Decentralized Data Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026.
Y. Xiang, Y. Lei (co-first author), D. Bao, T. Li, Q. Yang, W. Liu, W. Ren, and K.-K. R. Choo, "BABD: A Bitcoin Address Behavior Dataset for Pattern Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 2171-2185, 2024.

Bronze Medal, The 45th ICPC Asia Jinan Regional Contest, Dec 2020
Bronze Medal, 2020 China Collegiate Programming Contest, Nov 2020
Bronze Medal, The 45th ICPC Asia Shanghai Regional Contest, Nov 2020
Silver Medal, 2019 ICPC China Invitational and Silk-Road Contest, Jun 2019
Group A First Prize, The 11th Blue Bridge Cup National Finals C/C++ Programming University, 2020
National Second Prize, The 12th National College Student Information Security Competition Innovation and Practice Skills, 2019

Programming: Python, C++, C#
Technologies & Tools: Reinforcement Learning, PettingZoo, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn
Languages: Mandarin (native), English (IELTS: 6.5-equiv), Japanese (elementary proficiency)

SMx Toolbox -- Core Contributor (Jun 2021)
- Developed an easy-to-use cryptographic library featuring implementations of SM2 (public key encryption), SM3 (hash function), and SM4 (block cipher), enhancing the efficiency and security of data encryption processes.
Flutter -- Contributor (Jul 2020)
- Submitted a Pull Request to Google's Flutter Team to address difficulties in updating the Flutter development version, successfully merged into the main branch.
LibcSearcher2 -- Core Contributor (Apr 2019)
- Independently developed LibcSearcher2, a library achieving performance improvements by tens of times over the original LibcSearcher.
- Adopted by CTF teams of China University of Geosciences and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Teaching Assistant, Network Security Experiment, Wuhan University, Spring 2023
- Supervised undergraduate students in completing experiments, reviewed lab reports, and provided grade references.

ACM-ICPC Association, China University of Geosciences -- President & Technical Department Head (Dec 2018 -- Jun 2022)
- Led the team to notable competition successes including prizes and medals in national and regional contests.
- Maintained and further developed the China University of Geosciences Online Judging System (CUGOJ).
Cyber Security Association, China University of Geosciences -- Co-Founder & Operations (Sep 2018 -- Jun 2022)
- Co-founded the Cyber Security Association to enhance students' awareness and practical skills in cybersecurity.
- Secured the second prize in the National Finals of the 12th National College Student Information Security Competition.
- Co-organized and hosted the 3rd Annual CTF competition at China University of Geosciences online, and contributed to the design of several competition problems.