This page lists speakers that have given talks at our group meetings in reverse chronological order, as well as a short blurb on their topic of choice. The Previous Schedules section below lists the schedules for previous semesters.
Previous Schedules
Below you can find schedules for previous semesters.
| Date | Assignee | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 02/01/2019 | Ian Miers | Ian’s Job Talk |
| 02/08/2019 | Tyler Kell | Stories from the Frontlines: Pentesting (Note: Ari away) |
| 02/15/2019 | Cancelled due to the IC3 retreat | |
| 02/22/2019 | Nobody | Recent advances in cryptocurrencies reading group. Paper TBD. |
| 03/01/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | Joseph Bonneau (NYU) will present his work on Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs). For more info on this research area, see https://vdfresearch.org/. |
| 03/08/2019 | CANCELLED |
NYC Crypto Day |
| 03/15/2019 | Yan Ji |
Amplify Selfish Mining in a World with Rational Players |
| 03/22/2019 | CANCELLED | |
| 03/29/2019 | Deepak Maram | CHURP: CHUrn-Robust Proactive Secret Sharing |
| 04/05/2019 | Phil Daian |
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Latency Wars, and Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
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| 04/12/2019 | Iddo Bentov | Mimblewimble Overview & Discussion |
| 04/19/2019 | Ethan Cecchetti | Information Flow and its Application to Smart Contracts |
| 04/26/2019 | Lorenz Breidenbach | CANCELED |
| 05/03/2019 | Nobody | Recent advances in cryptocurrencies reading group. Paper TBD. |
| 05/10/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Benedikt Bünz (Stanford) will be presenting his paper Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains. |
| 05/17/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar | Fairness for Centralized Services |
| 05/24/2019 | Fan Zhang | Ted Yin from Cornell and Ava Labs will present Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability. |
| 05/31/2019 | Nobody | Short meta-meeting to discuss administrativa |
| 06/07/2019 | Nobody | CANCELED |
| 06/14/2019 | Nobody | CANCELED – IC3 ETH Bootcamp |
| 06/21/2019 | Nobody | Brainstorming Meeting to discuss research data |
| 06/28/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Soumya Basu will be talking about topic “TBD” |
| 07/05/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD |
| 07/12/2019 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 07/19/2019 | Fan Zhang | Reading AVSS paper. |
| 07/26/2019 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 08/02/2019 | Yan Ji | Yan will lead a group discussion on XClaim, a trustlesss cryptocurrency backed assets system |
| 08/06/2019 | Tyler Kell | One of Tyler’s friends that prefers to remain anonymous will be talking about threat modeling and architecture design review. |
| 08/16/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar |
Yue Guo from Cornell and Thunder Research will present “Synchronous, with a Chance of Partition Tolerance” from Crypto ’19
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| 08/27/2019 | Phil Daian | Phil will talk about Joe Bonneau and Andrew Miller’s Fawkescoin paper |
| 09/03/2019 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan will lead a talk about DAML. |
| 09/10/2019 | Tyler Kell | Haaroon Yousaf will be presenting his recent work “Tracing Transactions Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers” from USENIX Security ’19 |
| 09/17/2019 | Noa Oved | Noa’s friend Gal will present “Transactional Data Structure Libraries” – a paper about transactional memory. |
| 09/24/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen will be presenting her work on “SEEMless: Secure End-to-End Encrypted Messaging with Less Trust“ |
| 10/01/2019 | Fan Zhang | Jiaheng Zhang from Berkeley will present their CRYTP’19 paper Libra: Succinct Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Optimal Prover Computation. |
| 10/08/2019 | Yan Ji | Yan will be discussing the last few months of her research with people outside the group. |
| 10/15/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD |
| 10/22/2019 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 10/29/2019 | Deepak Maram | Vasilios Mavroudis will be presenting his recent paper Libra: Fair Order-Matching for Electronic Financial Exchanges. |
| 11/05/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar | Tom Yurek from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign will be discussing his CCS 2019 paper HoneyBadgerMPC and AsynchroMix: Practical Asynchronous MPC and its Application to Anonymous Communication. |
| 11/12/2019 | Cancelled due to CCS | |
| 11/19/2019 | Phil Daian | Phil will be talking about “Blockchain Protocol Security in the Age of DeFi” |
| 11/26/2019 | Quick scrum and various administrativa, but no presentation this week. | |
| 12/03/2019 | Ari Juels | Guest lecture by James Grimmelmann |
| 12/10/2019 | Phil Daian |
TBD |
| 12/17/2019 | Fan Zhang | I’ll present OPERA: Open Remote Attestation for Intel’s Secure Enclaves from CCS’19. |
| 12/24/2019 | Yan Ji | TBD |
| 12/31/2019 | NOBODY | Winter Holidays |
| 01/21/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD |
| 01/28/2020 | Fan Zhang | Job Talk |
| 02/04/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | TBD |
| 02/11/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD |
| 02/18/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 02/25/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 03/3/2020 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD |
| 03/10/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 03/17/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD |
| 03/24/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD |
| 03/31/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD |
| 04/07/2020 | Fan Zhang | TBD |
| 04/14/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | TBD |
| 04/21/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD |
| 04/28/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 05/5/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 05/12/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD |
| 05/19/2020 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD |
| 05/26/2020 | Fan Zhang |
We’ll have Long Chen from NJIT to present Proof of Storage-Time: Efficiently CheckingContinuous Data Availability (NDSS’20). |
| 06/02/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD |
| 06/09/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD |
| 06/16/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 06/23/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Sreeram Kannan will be giving a talk on Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation |
| 06/30/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD |
| 07/07/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 07/14/2020 | Sishan Long | AIRS research update |
| 07/21/2020 | Kushal Babel | Benjamin Y Chan will be giving a talk on Streamlet: Simplifying Consensus. |
| 07/28/2020 | NOBODY | CANCELED in favor of the IC3 Annual Blockchain Summer Camp |
| 08/04/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 08/11/2020 | Tyler Kell | Tyler will give a talk about modal editing, and vim tips. |
| 08/18/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen will be giving a practice talk about CanDID. |
| 08/25/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD |
| 09/01/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 09/08/2020 | Ari Juels | The “Research Stork:” where do good research ideas come from? |
| 09/15/2020 | N/A | Everyone will bring a 5 minute presentation about a research idea they haven’t used yet. |
| 09/22/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD |
| 09/30/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan will be giving a primer on Information-Flow Control (IFC). |
| 10/07/2020 | Kushal Babel | Kushal discussed Miner Extractable Value (MEV) |
| 10/14/2020 | Sishan Long | Jun-You Liu will be talking about Stablecoins 2.0: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models. |
| 10/21/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna will be running a list of 10 exciting research ideas for group discussion. |
| 10/28/2020 | Yan Ji | Yunhao Zhang will be talking about his new OSDI paper: Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy. |
| 11/04/2020 | Iddo Bentov | Iddo will present on fair secret sharing. |
| 11/11/2020 | Sarah Allen | Phil will be leading a discussion on the ethics of releasing research that has direct financial implications to blockchain users. |
| 11/18/2020 | Tyler Kell | George Kappos and Haaroon Yousaf will be talking about their recent lightning network research. |
| 11/25/2020 | NOBODY | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| 12/02/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen gave a talk on “Meal Prepping Healthy SNARKS.” |
| 12/09/2020 | NOBODY | Canceled in favor of IC3 Winter Retreat |
| 12/16/2020 | Phil Daian | Phil led another discussion on ethics |
| 12/23/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday |
| 12/30/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday |
| 01/06/2021 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 01/13/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari spoke about his Ring of Gyges paper. |
| 01/20/2021 | NOBODY | Canceled for the Inauguration |
| 01/27/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD |
| 02/03/2021 | Kushal Babel | TBD |
| 02/10/2021 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on Ansible |
| 02/17/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on order fairness. |
| 02/24/2021 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on Blockchain Denial of Service (BDoS) attacks. |
| 03/03/2021 | Iddo Bentov | Iddo gave a talk about mitigating issues with people uploading illegal data to Bitcoin |
| 03/10/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will give a quick introduction to behavioral economics and evolutionary psychology. |
| 03/17/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler gave a talk about DeFi. |
| 03/24/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Alin Tomescu will be giving a talk on vector commitments |
| 03/31/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak and Jasleen will be giving a joint practice talk on CanDID |
| 04/07/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil will give a talk called “The Third Door: Is Bribery Amazing or What?” |
| 04/14/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari will be leading a discussion called NFT Design Fest |
| 04/21/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan discussed the VERY recent paper “On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits” and the drama around the Linux Kernel patches |
| 04/28/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal talked about proof systems (Coq, K framework) for formal verification. |
| 05/05/2021 | NOBODY | Cancelled in favor of giving more time for the CCS deadline |
| 05/12/2021 | Sishan Long | Soubhik Deb gave a talk on PoSAT Proof of Work Availability and Unpredictability without the Work |
| 05/19/2021 | Andrew Miller | This session is a crossover episode with Andrew Miller’s group at UIUC to lead a discussion and brainstorming session about NFTs. |
| 05/26/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler will be giving a talk about memes. |
| 06/02/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Fractal SNARK Tutorial: Bring a pen and paper. |
| 06/09/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will be talking about her recent Forsage research. |
| 06/16/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 06/23/2021 | Yan Ji | Yashvanth Kondi will be giving a talk on “Proactive Threshold Wallets with Offline Devices.” |
| 06/30/2021 | Deepak Maram | Aravind spoke about his recent paper “Lockable Signatures for Blockchains: Scriptless Scripts for All Signatures.” |
| 07/07/2021 | Nobody | The group had a brief discussion about MEV, and takeaways from the MEV virtual summit the previous week. |
| 07/14/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | This meeting is canceled for Ethan’s B Exam. Attend the exam! |
| 07/21/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a talk on MEV related topics. |
| 07/28/2021 | NOBODY | Canceled in favor of the IC3 Summer camp |
| 08/04/2021 | Ari Juels | NFT Design session. |
| 08/11/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal talked about Charlotte: Composable Authenticated Distributed Data Structures. |
| 08/18/2021 | N/A | CANCELED in favor of S&P submission |
| 08/24/2021 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on the Latency, Thoroughput, Block Size and Decentralization tradeoffs. |
| 08/31/2021 | Tyler Kell | Blaine Malone will be giving a talk on EIP-2981 and NFT Royalties. |
| 09/07/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen gave a talk on mental poker. |
| 09/14/2021 | CANCELED | N/A |
| 09/21/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah is hosting a brainstorming session on NFTs. |
| 09/28/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | Zach Lieberman will join us for a discussion about NFTs. |
| 10/05/2021 | Yan Ji | Zach Lieberman will join us again for a discussion about NFTs. |
| 10/12/2021 | Nate Rothschild + Ruth Goutkovitch | Nate & Ruth will be giving a presentation based on the work they’ve done for their internship. |
| 10/19/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil gave an introductory talk in the “metaverse” and virtual reality. We used spatial.io for this. |
| 10/26/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak forgot to prepare anything and we had a brainstorming discussion about NFTs. |
| 11/02/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak invited Mahimna, who gave a talk on improvements in MPC. |
| 11/09/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari invited Tyler, who gave a talk on NFT.NYC. |
| 11/16/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal presented a recent SOSP paper about Kauri: scalable BFT consensus. |
| 11/23/2021 | Sishan Long | Florian Suri-Payer gave a talk on Basil Breaking up BFT with ACID Transactions. |
| 11/30/2021 | Tyler Kell | Patricio Worthalter gave a talk on the Proof of Attendance Protocol. |
| 12/07/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Tom Yurek will discuss his recent NDSS paper: “hbACSS: How to Robustly Share Many Secrets“ |
| 01/04/2021 | Nobody | We discussed administrativa and organization for meetings for the year. |
| 01/11/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah presented on the IRB approval process and we discussed research ethics. |
| 01/18/2022 | Nate Rothschild | We brainstormed heuristics for identifying malicious NFTs from benign ones. |
| 01/25/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan has a speaker from Dawn’s group to talk about Zk snark research. |
| 02/01/2022 | Phil Daian | TBD |
| 02/08/2022 | Ari Juels | Ari gave a talk on his testimony in congress |
| 02/15/2022 | Nobody | Skipped this week |
| 02/22/2022 | Kushal Babel | TBD |
| 03/01/2022 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 03/08/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minutes per person to talk about something, anything. |
| 03/15/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk about pi and some of its fun properties. |
| 03/22/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on cryptology and historical crypto-schemes. |
| 03/29/2022 | Jasleen Malvai | Mikerah Quentin-Collins will be presenting on MPC and related research ideas. |
| 04/05/2022 | Nobody | Spring Break |
| 04/12/2022 | Tyler Kell | Sebastian Büergel from Hopr Network will be coming to give a talk about the research issues they have in their work. |
| 04/19/2022 | Sarah Allen | Sarah gave a talk on Money Laundering in the Contemporary Art Market X NFTs |
| 04/26/2022 | Nate Rothschild | Tyler Kell gave an overview talk on all of IC3’s research and solicited feedback for the content of the talk. |
| 05/03/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. |
| 05/10/2022 | Yan Ji | Yuncong Hu from Berkeley gave a talk on Decentralized Ledgers Design and Applications. |
| 05/17/2022 | Ari Juels | Sunoo Park came to brainstorm and discuss research topics with the group. |
| 05/24/2022 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a review of the recent Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul paper. |
| 05/31/2022 | Jasleen Malvai |
Jasleen gave a practice talk on her recent work at Meta. |
| 06/07/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna presented on the Balls and Bins problem |
| 06/14/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak gave a talk on an optimal authentication mechanism paper he and Mahimna are working on. |
| 06/21/2022 | Nobody | Canceled for NFT NYC |
| 06/28/2022 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his recent paper SHORTSTACK: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access |
| 07/05/2022 | Nobody | Canceled for July 4. |
| 07/12/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan led a survey on how to do good research. |
| 07/19/2022 | Canceled | Ari on vacation |
| 07/26/2022 | Tyler Kell | Tyler walked through the Trail of bits report : Are Blockchains Decentralized? |
| 08/02/2022 | Canceled | Canceled for IC3 Summer Camp |
| 08/09/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. |
| 08/16/2022 | Sarah Allen | Feedback on the IC3 Summer Camp |
| 09/13/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on Vireo, a practical verifiable reputation system |
| 09/20/2022 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a talk on MEV boost. Recommended resources: All SBC MEV workshop talks; Builder innovation after the merge: Slides, Video; Vitalik talk about decentralization: Slides, Video, Blog post |
| 09/27/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna invited Joachim Neu to give a talk entitled Ethereum After The Merge: Is It Still Secure? based on a series of his work [NNT21, NNT22, D’ANNT22]. |
| 10/04/2022 | Ari Juels | Feedback on the NFT Gallery |
| 10/11/2022 | Cancelled | |
| 10/18/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on Arweave and discussed research opportunities and challenges in permanent storage. |
| 10/25/2022 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolinar gave a talk on the whistleblowing project to disincentivize collusion in fair ordering protocols. |
| 11/01/2022 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on Bitcoin and its evolution. |
| 11/08/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak invited Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias to give a talk entitled The Sui Smart-Contract Platform: A Technical Introduction. |
| 11/15/2022 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on On One-way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity |
| 11/22/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. |
| 11/28/2022 | Everyone | Attempt to break something. |
| 12/05/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak’s B Exam. |