NSF Cyber SMART’s Shin’ichiro Matsuo was a co-author on two papers accepted and presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) this year. One paper was recognized as a “Best Paper Award Candidate.” The conference was hosted in Pisa, Italy, convening members for four days in June.
Matsuo is the NSF Cyber SMART center co-director and lead researcher in the blockchain ecosystem, and is a research professor at Georgetown University and Virginia Tech. NSF Cyber SMART’s acronym stands for Science, Management, Applications, Regulation, and Training, and is an Industry-University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC).
The 2025 IEEE ICBC Best Paper Award Committee selected and considered five papers. These five papers met the criteria for selection, including scoring for originality, rigor, and significance in consideration of the field of submitted papers. The paper “Biometrics Enhances Blockchain Wallet Governance” by Saki Otsuki (NEC, Japan); Hiroto Tamiya and Kengo Mori (NEC Corporation, Japan); Toshiyuki Isshiki (University of Nagasaki, Japan); Shin'ichiro Matsuo (Georgetown University, USA); Satoshi Obana (Hosei University, Japan), was selected as a candidate.
The paper “Block Hijacking Attack: Impact Evaluation on Liquid Network and Design Insights for Blockchain-based Scaling Solutions” by Kabuto Okajima (Gunma University, Japan); Shin’ichiro Matsuo (Georgetown University, USA); and Koji Chida (Gunma University, Japan), was also selected, presented, and published at the 2025 IEEE ICBC.
Find the two papers on the 2025 IEEE ICBC website here:
- Biometrics Enhances Blockchain Wallet Governance
- Block Hijacking Attack: Impact Evaluation on Liquid Network and Design Insights for Blockchain-based Scaling Solutions
To learn more about the 2025 IEEE ICBC best paper awards, visit: https://icbc2025.ieee-icbc.org/program/best-paper-awards
About Cyber SMART
Cyber SMART is a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC). Its participating research institutions include Georgetown University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Technology Sydney, and Virginia Tech.
To learn more about Cyber SMART, please visit cybersmartcenter.org
Contact: Christina Clark, Research Communications Specialist
Cyber SMART / Notre Dame Research / University of Notre Dame
cclark26@nd.edu / 574.631.2665