Decentralized Systems Group
Department of Computer Science, Yale Unversity
We have openings for PhD student to start in 2026 Fall. Please read here for more information.
Members






Alums
- Mengqian Zhang (postdoc 2023-2025 → Postdoc at CMU)
- Kaihua Qin (postdoc 2023-2025 → Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick)
- Lulu Zhou (graduated 2024 → Protocol Researcher at EigenLayer)
- Yujie Lu (2022-2024, co-advised with Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou)
Undergrad Advisees
Interns:
- Yoshi Sato (intern, 2025)
- Yanxin Pang (intern, 2024)
- Fangyan Shi (intern, 2024)
- Rui Wang (MS student, 2023 → PhD student at Purdue)
- Yixiao Wang (intern, 2023 → MS student at Cornell)
- Chengrui Fang (intern, 2023)
- Zhenyu Zhao (intern, 2023 → PhD student at HKUST Crypto-Fintech Lab)
- Rongwu Xu (intern, 2022 → PhD student at UW)
- Zerui Cheng (intern 2022 → PhD student at Princeton)
- Shutong Qu (intern, 2022)
- Yuxuan Lu (intern 2021 → PhD student at Peking University)
Yale Senior Thesis Advisees:
- Roshan Palakkal (2025 Fall)
- Inssia Ahmed (2025 Fall)
- Sophia Zhou (2025 Fall)
- Yiğit Kılıçoğlu (2024 Fall)
- Yuhang Cui (2024 Spring) (Poster)
- Andrew Wang (2023 Fall)
- Megha Joshi (2023 Spring)
- Justin Ye (2023 Spring)
Acknowledgments
DSG is currently supported by the generous grants and gifts from:
