Computer Science & Engineering student Woochang Jeong wins the IEEE Blockchain 2025 Outstanding Paper Award.

Woochang Jeong (Integrated ’19, Advisor: Professor Chanik Park ) of the Computer Science & Engineering won the ‘IEEE Outstanding Paper Award’ at ‘The 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2025’ held in Zhengzhou, China on Saturday, Nov. 1st.

The award-winning paper, “Breaking the Straggler Effect: a Relaxed Mempool for High-Throughput and Low-Latency DAG-Based BFT Consensus,” is a Research Affairs and Project Management that proposes a directed acyclic graph-based Byzantine-tolerant consensus system that can improve consensus performance in environments where delayed nodes exist. It was highly evaluated for its innovation in alleviating the delay problem of the blockchain consensus process, thereby improving transaction throughput and reducing delay time. The Research Affairs and Project Management was selected as an excellent paper among a total of 33 papers, and its technical completeness and experimental validity were recognized.

This award serves as international validation of Professor Chanik Park Professor Research Affairs and Project Management team’s competitiveness in the blockchain and distributed systems fields, and is expected to make a significant contribution to the future development of related technologies.