Academic Activities
This page lists the students I have advised or co-advised, along with other academic-related activities.
UCL Master Thesis Supervision
Since 2019, I have supervised or co-supervised 15+ master’s theses at UCL on the following topics:
- Distributed privacy-preserving petition systems
- Side-channel attacks using machine learning techniques
- Performance comparison of cryptographic algorithms for BFT consensus
- Safety attacks detections for BFT consensus
- Privacy-preserving reputation-based systems
- Privacy-preserving and decentralised contact discovery mechanisms
- Privacy-preserving single-sign on schemes
- Dynamic parameters optimisation of consensus protocols
- Horizontally scaling DAG-based BFT consensus protocols
- Systematisation and improvements of blockchain indexers and scanners
- Crash fault tolerant consensus protocols
- Blockchain rollups with various threat models
Interns Supervision
I Advised or co-advised the following interns.
Interns at Mysten Labs
Intern | Institution | Internship Year | Outcome |
---|---|---|---|
Giulia Scaffino | TU Wien | 2024 | Sunfish |
Grace Cimaszewski | Princeton University | 2024 | Network simulator for Sui |
Scofield Liu | Imperial College London | 2024 | TBD |
Srivatsan Sridhar | Stanford University | 2024 | TBD |
Kushal Babel | Cornell Tech | 2023 | Mysticeti |
Quentin Kiep | ETH Zurich | 2023 | Pilotfish |
Giorgos Tsimos | University of Maryland | 2023 | Hammerhead |
Tony Zhang | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | 2023 | Pilotfish |
Interns at Meta
Intern | Institution | Internship Year | Outcome |
---|---|---|---|
Neil Giridharan | UC Berkeley | 2022 | Bullshark |
Guy Goren | Technion | 2022 | PoA |
Shir Cohen | Technion | 2021, 2022 | Carousel, PoA |
Mahimna Kelkar | Cornell Tech | 2021 | STROBE, Zef |
Zhuolun Xiang | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2021 | Jolteon and Ditto |
PC Duties
I served in the following program committees:
- AFT: 2021 (sub-reviewer), 2022, 2023, 2024
- FAB: 2022
- FC: 2023, 2024, 2025
- CANS: 2022
- CATS: 2023
- CCS: 2021 (sub-reviewer), 2022 (sub-reviewer), 2023, 2024, 2025
- ICDCS: 2019 (sub-reviewer), 2020 (sub-reviewer), 2021, 2022, 2025
- ICDE: 2025
- Middleware: 2025
- PODC: 2022 (sub-reviewer), 2024 (sub-reviewer)
- SBC: 2024 (sub-reviewer)
- TLDR: 2025
- USENIX Security: 2025
- WEB3SEC: 2022