Yepeng Ding is an assistant professor at the Information Media Center and Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, an M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.E. from the University of Tokyo, and a B.E. from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He was a research fellow at ETH Zurich and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His research interests include decentralized computing, information security, and software engineering.