2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

July 13, 2020

Publication “Revealing Every Story of Data in Blockchain Systems” Won 2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

Professor Ooi Beng Chin, Computer Science PhD student Ruan Pingcheng and Senior Research Fellow Dr Lin Qian, and three other research collaborators received the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight award for their paper, titled ‘Revealing Every Story of Data in Blockchain Systems’.

The 2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award is presented at the 2020 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data, which was held online from 14 to 19 June. The conference is a leading international forum for researchers who explore and advance research on data management. The award recognises research projects that address important problems with solutions that have considerable impact on the industry and the community.

This publication offers a solution for blockchain vendors to improve their products. The researchers explored combining two current, separate uses of blockchains — supporting online transactions between parties, and resolving transaction disputes — by introducing data provenance (a record trail of a data’s origin) to smart contracts (programs that run on a blockchain).

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