CV

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

Aviv Yaish, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar

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

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar

• In Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT23)

The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi

Maya Dotan, Aviv Yaish, Hsin-Chu Yin, Eytan Tsytkin, Aviv Zohar

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

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest

Aviv Yaish, Saar Tochner, Aviv Zohar

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

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais

• Funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant
• Awarded a bug bounty by the Ethereum Foundation
• Awarded a bug bounty by Flashbots

Blockchain Censorship

Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais

• Funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant

Suboptimality in DeFi

Aviv Yaish, Maya Dotan, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais

• 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

Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish

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

• Melabev's certificate of appreciation for outstanding volunteer services
• Devconnect academic sponsorship
• Ethereum Foundation bug bounty
• Flashbots bug bounty
• EC23 student travel funding
• AIANI visiting researcher fellowship
• HUJI Diversity Unit's travel scholarship for outstanding PhD students
• Ethereum Foundation grant (Censorship on Public Blockchains)
• Ethereum Foundation grant (DoS Implications of Blockchain Censorship)

• 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

• Israeli Defense Forces certificate of appreciation

• Israeli Defense Forces department excellence award

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

Research Associate (Internship)

Matter Labs

Visiting Researcher

University of Innsbruck

• Funded by an AIANI visiting researcher fellowship

PhD candidate

The Hebrew University

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

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

The Hebrew University

• 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

The Hebrew University

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

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

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

• Reviewer. ACM AFT20.

System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer

The Hebrew University

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

From NAND to Tetris (67925/6), lecturer

The Hebrew University

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

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

The Hebrew University

Nimrod Rak

The Hebrew University

• Title: Simulating cryptocurrency networks using real clients

Eytan Tsytkin

The Hebrew University

• Title: Application of Big Data methods to cryptocurrencies

Imri Paran

The Hebrew University

• Title: An exploration of Bitcoin's attack surface

The Science of Decentralized Financial Stability Workshop (invited)

Suboptimality in DeFi

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

Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners

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

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

Innsbruck University's Security and Privacy Lab (invited)

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest

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

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

The Crypto Economics Security Conference

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

The Crypto Economics Security Conference

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421 (invited)

Supoptimality in DeFi

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

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

Chaincode Labs' Research Seminar (invited)

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest

The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest

First Israeli Blockchain Research Day (invited)

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

The Hebrew University's Cryptocurrencies Seminar (invited)

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

Volunteered with elderly people with dementia

Melabev