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 Dr. Nicolas Christin and work with his team at CyLab (Security and Privacy Institute). My work investigates emerging cybercrime and computer security threats, with a particular focus on the financial domain. I study system- and software-level attacks such as denial-of-service (DoS) and address poisoning on blockchain. I also research societal threats such as fraud, fake accounts, market manipulation, stolen data, and malicious AI endpoints. 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.
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| 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! |
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| 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 of the researchers in this field in Berkeley! Video available here |
| Jul 16, 2025 | I was invited to talk at College London (UCL) Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Thank you for having me! |
| Jun 23, 2025 | This summer, I am visiting University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology under Professor Alice Hutchings. Today, I presented my work at Cambridge Cybercrime Centre: Eighth Annual Cybercrime Conference. |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Our paper “Blockchain Address Poisoning” is accepted to USENIX SECURITY’25 (Artifact verified). As a follow-up of this work, we develop a real-time detection system “Toxin Tagger.” Please check out the website and the bot on X @toxin_tagger that broadcast the results! |