Gengmo Qi

Phd Student in Computer Science, Cornell University

Bio

I’m currently a Computer Science PhD student at Cornell University. My research interests broadly include security and privacy, distributed systems, and cryptoeconomics.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant:
  • CS 5112: Algorithms and Data Structures (Graduate level. 19 Fall, 20 Fall, 21 Spring)
    • with Prof. Ramin Zabih
  • CS 5433: Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Smart Contracts (Graduate level. 20 Spring)
    • with Prof. Ari Juels

Publications

• Deep survival analysis with longitudinal X-rays for COVID-19
  Michelle Shu, Richard Bowen, Charles Herrmann, Gengmo Qi, Michele Santacatterina, Ramin Zabih
  In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021

• Identifying Mobile Sensing Indicators of Stress-Resilience
  Daniel Adler, Vincent W.-S. Tseng, Gengmo Qi, Joseph Scarpa, Srijan Sen, Tanzeem Choudhury
  In The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2020

Professional Experience

• August 2019 - Present:
  • Teaching Assistant, Cornell University
  • Member of IC3, The Initiative For CryptoCurrencies & Contracts
• August 2018 - August 2019:
  • Researcher, ThunderCore
  • Consensus algorithms research. Advised by Prof. Elaine Shi
  • I co-authored Consensus Protocols 101, our attempt at an informal treatment of consensus protocols for developers, written in collaboration with Peter Lu. This document collates (back then) what we believed were the most important facts to understanding blockchain consensus in an accessible way.
    • Want a formal and rigorous treatment of consensus algorithms? I highly recommend Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains by Prof. Elaine Shi.
• June 2017 - August 2017:
  • Summer Analyst, Credit Suisse
  • Structured Funds, Equity Derivatives

Talks and Presentations

• Consensus and Blockchains, March 2021
  • CS5112 Guest lecture at Cornell
• Zerocash: Decentralized anonymous payments from Bitcoin, November 2017
  • Paper presentation as part of COMP6111C: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technologies, taught by Prof. Dimitris Papadopoulos