He was a postdoc at Maryland Cybersecurity Center, the University of Maryland, under the direction of Jonathan Katz. Before that, he received his PhD at the University of Connecticut with Aggelos Kiayias as advisor. Hong-Sheng is currently working on multiple directions in cryptography including Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies, Post-Snowden Cryptography, Secure Computing, and constantly publish in top-tier cryptography and cybersecurity, and distributed computing conferences including CRYPTO, Eurocrypt, CCS, PODC. More information about his research can be found his group page http://cryptographylab.bitbucket.io