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General Information
Full Name | Aviv Yaish |
Research Interests | Blockchains, Economics, Security, Decentralized Finance, Mechanism Design |
aviv@avivyaish.com |
Honors, Awards and Grants
- 2023
EC23 student travel grant
- 2023
An academic grant from the Ethereum Foundation
- 2023
The Hebrew University's Diversity Unit's travel grant for outstanding PhD students
- 2023
The Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck's (AIANI) visiting researcher fellowship
- 2022
Vaad Edat Hasfaradim’s scholarship
- 2022
The Hebrew University's Authority for Research Students' travel grant
- 2021
Award for excellence in the Hebrew University's teaching evaluation survey
- 2021
The Ethereum Foundation's bug bounty prize
- 2020
Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in The Hebrew University's CS department
- 2019
The Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship for Applied and Engineering Science for Doctoral Students, a 4 year merit-based fellowship for direct-to-PhD students
- 2019
The Zcash Foundation's Zcon1 travel grant
- 2018
The Hebrew University's Rector award and one-year grant for MSc students, for ranking first among fellow class-mates
- 2018
The Hebrew University's Dean award and prize for outstanding academic achievements
- 2016
First place at The Hebrew University's annual machine learning hackathon
- 2013
Received the merit-based "Amirim science" excellence scholarship for undergraduates
- 2011
Israeli Defense Forces excellence award, for the development of a new mission-critical system
- 2010
Israeli Defense Forces excellence award, for the advancement of my department
- 2007
Ranked in the 99th percentile in Israel's SAT equivalent (the psychometric exam)
Papers
- 2023
Blockchain Censorship
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais
- Under submission.
- 2022
Suboptimality in DeFi
Aviv Yaish, Maya Dotan, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
- Under submission.
- Presented at Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421, Security of Decentralized Financial Technologies.
- 2022
Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
- Under submission.
- Accepted to the 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society.
- Presented at The Technion's Industrial Engineering & Management Research Day 22.
- Presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society.
- 2022
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
Aviv Yaish, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar
- Accepted to The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS23).
- Accepted to The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC22).
- Presented at The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC22).
- Presented at The Federmann Cyber Security Center's Cyber Retreat.
- Presented at The Hebrew University's Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Security Seminar.
- Presented at Innsbruck University's Department of Computer Science's seminar.
- 2022
Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest
Aviv Yaish, Saar Tochner, Aviv Zohar
- Published in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC22).
- Presented at The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
- Presented at Chaincode Labs' Research Seminar.
- Presented at Innsbruck University's Security and Privacy Lab.
- 2020
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar
- Accepted to The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC22).
- Presented at The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC22).
- Presented at The First Israeli Blockchain Research Day.
- Presented at The Hebrew University's Cryptocurrencies Seminar.
Talks
- 2023
The 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society
Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
- 2023
Innsbruck University's Department of Computer Science's seminar (invited)
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
- 2023
Innsbruck University's Security and Privacy Lab (invited)
Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest
- 2022
The Hebrew University's Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Security Seminar (invited)
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
- 2022
The Crypto Economics Security Conference
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
- 2022
The Crypto Economics Security Conference
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
- 2022
Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421: Security of Decentralized Financial Technologies (invited)
Supoptimality in DeFi
- 2022
The Federmann Cyber Security Center's Cyber Retreat (invited)
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
- 2022
Chaincode Labs' Research Seminar (invited)
Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest
- 2022
The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest
- 2021
First Israeli Blockchain Research Day (invited)
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
- 2019
The Hebrew University's Cryptocurrencies Seminar (invited)
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Posters
- 2022
The Technion's Industrial Engineering & Management Research Day
Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
- 2022
The Crypto Economics Security Conference
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
- 2022
The Crypto Economics Security Conference
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Teaching
- 2021
Recipient of the award for excellence in teaching
The Hebrew University
- 2020
Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in the CS department
The Hebrew University
- 2020
Introduction to Cryptocurrencies (67513), co-creator and TA
The Hebrew University
- A graduate course which covers the theory and practice of cryptocurrencies, averaging 50 students per semester.
- Provided ideas and hands-on guidance for ~20 final projects.
- 2018 -
System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer
The Hebrew University
- An undergraduate first year computer science MOOC covering basic to advanced usage of the command-line shell, taken by 850 students a year.
- 2017 - 2023
From NAND to Tetris (67925/6), lecturer
The Hebrew University
- An undergraduate second year computer science course covering the construction of a fully-functioning computer, averaging 600 students per semester. Managed a team of 7 TAs.
Research Positions
- 2023 -
Visiting Researcher
University of Innsbruck
- Recipient of The Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck's (AIANI) visiting researchers fellowship.
- Conducting research with Prof. Rainer Böhme and Prof. Svetlana Abramova.
Education
- 2019 -
PhD candidate
The Hebrew University
- On the direct-to-PhD track
- Recipient of the merit-based 4-year Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship
- 2016 - 2018
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science
The Hebrew University
- Magna cum laude (97.55 out of 100)
- Recipient of the rector prize for ranking first in class
- Recipient of the dean's prize for outstanding academic achievements
- 2013 - 2016
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science
The Hebrew University
- Recipient of the merit-based "Amirim science" excellence scholarship for undergraduates
- Won first place at The Hebrew University's annual machine learning undergraduate hackathon
Supervision
- 2022 - 2023
Nimrod Rak
The Hebrew University
- Title: Simulating cryptocurrency networks using real clients
- 2022 - 2022
Eytan Tsytkin
The Hebrew University
- Title: Application of Big Data methods to cryptocurrencies
- 2021 -
Imri Paran
The Hebrew University
- Title: An exploration of Bitcoin's attack surface
Service
- 2023
Program Committee
ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi)
- 2023
Reviewer
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)
- 2023
Reviewer
Workshop on Decentralized Finance, co-held with FC23
- 2023
Reviewer
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)
- 2023
Reviewer
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
- 2022
Reviewer
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
- 2022
Reviewer
ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
- 2022
Reviewer
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
- 2020
Reviewer
ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT)
Other
- 2020-2022
Volunteer
Melabev
- Volunteered with elderly people with dementia. I accompanied groups to the Israeli Museum on a weekly basis, and have participated in the “Kesher” telephone program by calling a group of elderly people throughout the week. In addition, I translated documents from Hebrew to English.