CV

Visiting Researcher

• Funded by an AIANI visiting researcher fellowship

Research Consultant

Research Associate (Internship)

PhD candidate

• On the direct-to-PhD track
• Recipient of the merit-based 4-year Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

• Recipient of the rector prize for ranking first in class
• Recipient of the dean's prize for outstanding academic achievements

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science

• Recipient of the merit-based "Amirim science" excellence scholarship

• ACM CCS23 distinguished paper for Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
• AIANI visiting researcher fellowship
• Ethereum Foundation grant (DoS Implications of Blockchain Censorship)
• Melabev's certificate of appreciation for outstanding volunteer services
• Flashbots vulnerability bounty
• Ethereum Foundation bug bounty
• AFT23 student travel funding
• ACM CCS23 travel grant
• iMentor23 travel funding
• ACM EC23 student travel funding
• Devconnect academic sponsorship (awarded, did not collect)
• Fenbushi Capital Research House Program (accepted, could not participate)
• HUJI's Diversity Unit's March 23 travel scholarship for outstanding PhD students
• HUJI's Diversity Unit's September 23 travel scholarship for outstanding PhD students

• HUJI Authority for Research Students' travel grant
• Vaad Edat Hasfaradim’s scholarship

• Award for excellence in HUJI's teaching evaluation survey
• Ethereum Foundation bug bounty (awarded, did not collect)

• Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in HUJI's CS department

• Ze’ev Jabotinsky 4 year merit-based fellowship
• Zcash Foundation Zcon1 travel scholarship

• HUJI Rector's prize for ranking first in MSc class
• HUJI Dean's award for outstanding academic achievements

• First place at HUJI's annual machine learning hackathon

• Amirim science excellence scholarship for undergraduates

• Ranked in the 99th percentile in Israel's SAT equivalent (psychometric exam)

Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum

• In ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (CCS23)
• ACM CCS23 distinguished paper

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

• In Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT23)

The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi

• In ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi23)

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest

• In ACM Conference on Economics & Computation (EC22)
• Awarded a bug bounty by the Ethereum Foundation

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

• Funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant
• Awarded a bug bounty by the Ethereum Foundation
• Awarded a bug bounty by Flashbots
• Accepted to Tokenomics '23

Blockchain Censorship

• Funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant

Suboptimality in DeFi

• Presented at Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421 (invited talk)
• Presented at The Science of Decentralized Financial Stability Workshop (invited talk)

Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners

• Presented at Technion's Industrial Engineering & Management Research Day
• Accepted to the Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer

• Sole lecturer and creator, course averages 850 students/year

From NAND to Tetris (67925/6), lecturer

• Sole lecturer, managed a team of 7 TAs, course averages 500 students/year

Introduction to Cryptocurrencies (67513), co-creator and TA

Nimrod Rak

• Title: Simulating cryptocurrency networks using real clients

Eytan Tsytkin

• Title: Application of Big Data methods to cryptocurrencies

Imri Paran

• Title: An exploration of Bitcoin's attack surface

• Program committee. MARBLE24.

• Program committee. ACM DeFi23 Workshop, MARBLE24.
• In-person volunteer. ACM EC23.
• Reviewer. ACM CCS23, ACM EC23, FC23 DeFi Workshop, WEIS23, FC24, SODA24, WWW24.

• Reviewer. IEEE S&P22, ACM WWW23, ACM-SIAM SODA23.

• Reviewer. ACM AFT20.

The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

CBER Forums's Top Blockchain PhD Graduates Symposium

Yale's CS Seminar (invited)

Princeton's Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Cryptocurrencies seminar (invited)

Tokenomics

Advances in Financial Technologies

The Science of Decentralized Financial Stability Workshop (invited)

The Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

Innsbruck University's Department of Computer Science's seminar (invited)

Innsbruck University's Security and Privacy Lab (invited)

HUJI's Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Security Seminar (invited)

The Crypto Economics Security Conference

The Crypto Economics Security Conference

Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421 (invited)

The Federmann Cyber Security Center's Cyber Retreat (invited)

Chaincode Labs' Research Seminar (invited)

The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

First Israeli Blockchain Research Day (invited)

The Hebrew University's Cryptocurrencies Seminar (invited)

Volunteered with elderly people with dementia