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NEWS _________________________________________________________________________________________
BRIEF BIO_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I am an assistant professor at the IMDEA Software Institute (Spain) since October 2020. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from Purdue University (USA) in 2018. Prior to joining the IMDEA Software Institute in October 2020, I held a postdoctoral position at Technical University of Vienna (Austria). During my PhD, I was also a visiting student at Ripple Labs (USA), IBM-Research Zurich (Switzerland). I received my bachelor and master degree from the University of Murcia (Spain). During my master, I was also a visiting student at Philips Research Europe (The Netherlands).
RESEARCH OVERVIEW______________________________________________________________________________________
Empirical Analysis of Blockchain Security and Privacy:
| (Layer-2) Blockchain Security, Privacy & Scalability:
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Cryptographic Tools for Blockchain Security & Privacy:
| Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Anonymous Communications:
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PEOPLE _______________________________________________________________________________________
PhD Students | |||
Lukas Aumayr | TU Vienna | Sep 2019 - Present | (Co-supervised with Matteo Maffei) |
Erkan Tairi | TU Vienna | Oct 2018 - Present | (Co-supervised with Matteo Maffei) |
Master Students
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Jakob Abfalter | TU Vienna | Mar 2020 - Present | (Co-supervised with Matteo Maffei) |
Research Internship
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Oguzhan Ersoy | TU Delft | Winter 2019 | |
Duc V. Le | Purdue University | Summer 2019 | |
Sergei Tikhomirov | University of Luxembourg | Summer 2019 |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS________________________________________________________________________________
You can find a complete list of publications in DBLP and Google Scholar.
[S&P’21] | A2L: Anonymous Atomic Locks for Scalability and Interoperability in Payment Channel Hubs |
Erkan Tairi, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Matteo Maffei | |
[S&P’21] | Bitcoin-Compatible Virtual Channels |
Lukas Aumayr, Oguzhan Ersoy, Andreas Erwig, Sebastian Faust, Kristina Hostakova, Matteo Maffei, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Siavash Riahi | |
[USENIX’21] | Blitz: Secure Multi-Hop Payments Without Two-Phase-Commits |
Lukas Aumayr, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate and Matteo Maffei | |
[CCS’19] | Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks |
Christoph Egger, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Matteo Maffei | |
[NDSS’19] | Anonymous Multi-hop Locks for Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability |
Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Clara Schneidewind, Aniket Kate and Matteo Maffei | |
[WWW’18] | Mind Your Credit: Assessing the Health of the Ripple Credit Network |
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Navin Modi, Raghuvir Songhela, Aniket Kate and Sonia Fahmy | |
[NDSS’18] | Settling Payments Fast and Private: Efficient Decentralized Routing for Path-Based Transactions |
Stefanie Roos, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate and Ian Goldberg | |
[CCS’17] | Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks |
Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate, Matteo Maffei and Srivatsan Ravi | |
[NDSS’17] | SilentWhispers: Enforcing Security and Privacy in Decentralized Credit Networks |
Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate and Matteo Maffei | |
[NDSS’17] | P2P Mixing and Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions |
Tim Ruffing, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Aniket Kate | |
[NDSS’15] | Privacy Preserving Payments in Credit Networks |
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate, Matteo Maffei and Kim Pecina | |
SERVICE ______________________________________________________________________________________
Organization
Program Committee
Editorial Board & Journal Reviewer
External Reviewer