CV

EC23 student travel grant

An academic grant from the Ethereum Foundation

The Hebrew University's Diversity Unit's travel grant for outstanding PhD students

The Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck's (AIANI) visiting researcher fellowship

Vaad Edat Hasfaradim’s scholarship

The Hebrew University's Authority for Research Students' travel grant

Award for excellence in the Hebrew University's teaching evaluation survey

The Ethereum Foundation's bug bounty prize

Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in The Hebrew University's CS department

The Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship for Applied and Engineering Science for Doctoral Students, a 4 year merit-based fellowship for direct-to-PhD students

The Zcash Foundation's Zcon1 travel grant

The Hebrew University's Rector award and one-year grant for MSc students, for ranking first among fellow class-mates

The Hebrew University's Dean award and prize for outstanding academic achievements

First place at The Hebrew University's annual machine learning hackathon

Received the merit-based "Amirim science" excellence scholarship for undergraduates

Israeli Defense Forces excellence award, for the development of a new mission-critical system

Israeli Defense Forces excellence award, for the advancement of my department

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 12th 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

The Hebrew University'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: Security of Decentralized Financial Technologies (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?

The Technion's Industrial Engineering & Management Research Day

Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners

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?

Recipient of the award for excellence in teaching

The Hebrew University

Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in the CS department

The Hebrew University

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

• 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

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

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

Program Committee

ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi)

Reviewer

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)

Reviewer

Workshop on Decentralized Finance, co-held with FC23

Reviewer

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)

Reviewer

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

Reviewer

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)

Reviewer

ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)

Reviewer

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)

Reviewer

ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT)

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.