Taro Tsuchiya
Hello, welcome to my webpage! I am a 5th-year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Computer Science (SCS). I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Nicolas Christin and work with his team at CyLab (Security and Privacy Institute). My work investigates real-world cybercrime and computer security attacks at scale, especially those that target financial systems. The examples include denial-of-service (DoS) (SIGMETRICES’25), address poisoning (USENIX Security’25), and fake accounts and fraud (WWW’24, WWW’23). I am also a recipient of the Nakajima Foundation Fellowship and the Cylab Presidential Fellowship for my doctoral studies.
I was a research assistant at Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC) (under Dr. David Farber and Dr. Cameron Freer) in 2021 and was a research visitor at University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology (under Professor Alice Hutchings) in 2025.
news
| Jan 7, 2026 | Our address poisoning paper was highlighted in Cylab’s article, which featured our Toxin Tagger that detected a $50 million successful attack on December 19, 2025. Thank you Michael for concise yet technical summary of our work! |
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| Dec 24, 2025 | I gave a talk at University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) on Dec. 24th. Thank you for many insightful questions! |
| Dec 11, 2025 | I gave a talk at University of Chicago, Network Operations and Internet Security (Noise) Lab on Dec. 11th. Thank you for having me! |
| Oct 23, 2025 | I gave talks at NYU Tandon School of Engineering The Center for Cybersecurity, Lecture on Oct. 23rd and NYU Blockchain Lab, Research Talks at Stern on Oct. 24th in New York City. I had a great time! |
| Oct 20, 2025 | I received the Cylab Presidential Fellowship (2025-2026 full tuition)! |
| Oct 2, 2025 | I gave two guest lectures on 17703 (Bitcoin Applications + Ethereum) at CMU! I loved the active participation of students! |
| Aug 13, 2025 | I presented our paper at USENIX Security 2025 (Day 1 Blockchain Security, Attacks, and Defenses Session). I had a great time in Seattle! |
| Aug 4, 2025 | Blockchain Address Poisoning was selected to present at this year’s Science of Blockchain Conference SBC’25 (acceptance rate 15%). It was great to catch up with all the researchers in this field in Berkeley! Video available here |