CV

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Funded by the departmental trustworthy computing postdoc gift fund

Visiting Researcher

• Partially funded by an AIANI visiting researcher fellowship

Research Consultant

Research Associate (Internship)

Direct-to-PhD, Computer Science

• 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

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

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

Ethereum Foundation grant, DoS Implications of Blockchain Censorship (PI, 72,000 USD)

Ethereum Foundation grant, Blockchain Censorship - Quantitative Analysis of Censorship on Public Blockchains (Co-I, 25,000 USD)

• ACM CCS23 distinguished paper
• Ethereum Foundation bounty
• Flashbots vulnerability bounty
• AIANI visiting researcher fellowship
• AFT23 student travel funding
• ACM CCS23 travel grant
• iMentor23 travel funding
• ACM EC23 student travel funding
• Devconnect academic sponsorship (awarded, could not participate)
• Fenbushi Capital Research House Program (awarded, 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 teaching
• Ethereum Foundation bounty (awarded, didn't 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)

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

• In the Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
• Awarded a bounty by the Ethereum Foundation
• Awarded a bounty by Flashbots

Blockchain Censorship

• In the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Web Conference

Incentives in the Ether: Practical Cryptocurrency Economics & Security

• In the Companion Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Web Conference

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

• In the Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications
• Received an ACM CCS distinguished paper award
• Covered by International Business Times, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

• In the Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies

The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi

• In the Proceedings of the 2023 ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest

• In the Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics & Computation
• Awarded a bounty by the Ethereum Foundation

Suboptimality in DeFi

Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners

Strategic Vote Timing in Online Elections With Public Tallies

• In the 3rd Frontiers in DeFi workshop

Barriers to Collusion-resistant Transaction Fee Mechanisms

Competitive Revenue Extraction from Time-Discounted Transactions in the Semi-Myopic Regime

Airdrops: Giving Money Away Is Harder Than It Seems

• Equal contribution denoted by ^*

System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer

• Sole lecturer and creator, taught an average of 850 students/year

From NAND to Tetris (67925/6), lecturer

• Sole lecturer, managed a team of 7 TAs, taught an average of 500+ students/year

Award for excellence in teaching

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

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

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

• Journal referee. ACM TEAC, INFORMS MOR
• Program committee. MARBLE, EC, AFT

• Program committee. CCS DeFi Workshop
• In-person volunteer. EC
• Reviewer. CCS, EC, FC, SODA, WWW, WEIS, FC DeFi Workshop

• Reviewer. S&P, SODA, WWW

• Reviewer. AFT

Incentives in the Ether: Practical Cryptocurrency Economics & Security

• The Web 2024 Conference Companion Promo, 2024
• HUJI's Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Security Seminar, 2024

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

• Syracuse University's Friday seminar (invited), 2023
• CBER Forum's Top Blockchain PhD Graduates Symposium (invited), 2023
• Yale's CS Seminar (invited), 2023
• Tokenomics, 2023

Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners

• The Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society, 2023

Supoptimality in DeFi

• UCSB-ECON DeFi Seminar (invited), 2024
• The Science of Decentralized Financial Stability Workshop (invited), 2023
• Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421 (invited), 2022

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

• The Hebrew University's EconCS seminar (invited), 2024
• The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023
• Princeton's Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Cryptocurrencies seminar (invited), 2023
• Innsbruck University's Department of Computer Science's seminar (invited), 2023
• HUJI's Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Security Seminar (invited), 2022
• The Crypto Economics Security Conference, 2022
• The Federmann Cyber Security Center's Cyber Retreat (invited), 2022

Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest

• HUJI's Seminar on the Border of Economics and Computation (invited), 2024
• Innsbruck University's Security and Privacy Lab (invited), 2023
• Chaincode Labs' Research Seminar (invited), 2022
• The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2022

Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

• Advances in Financial Technologies, 2023
• The Crypto Economics Security Conference, 2022
• First Israeli Blockchain Research Day (invited), 2021
• The Hebrew University's Cryptocurrencies Seminar (invited), 2019

Received Melabev's certificate of appreciation for outstanding volunteer services

Volunteered with elderly people with dementia