CV
General Information
Full Name | Aviv Yaish |
aviv@avivyaish.com | |
Research Interests | Blockchains, Economics, Security, Decentralized Finance, Mechanism Design |
Research Positions
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2023 - -
2023 - Research Consultant
Matter Labs -
2023 - 2023 Research Associate (Internship)
Matter Labs
Education
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2019 - PhD candidate
The Hebrew University - On the direct-to-PhD track
- Recipient of the merit-based 4-year Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship
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2016 - 2018 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
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2013 - 2016 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science
The Hebrew University - Recipient of the merit-based "Amirim science" excellence scholarship
Honors, Awards and Funding
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2023 - 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
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2022 - HUJI Authority for Research Students' travel grant
- Vaad Edat Hasfaradim’s scholarship
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2021 - Award for excellence in HUJI's teaching evaluation survey
- Ethereum Foundation bug bounty (awarded, did not collect)
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2020 - Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in HUJI's CS department
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2019 - Ze’ev Jabotinsky 4 year merit-based fellowship
- Zcash Foundation Zcon1 travel scholarship
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2018 - HUJI Rector's prize for ranking first in MSc class
- HUJI Dean's award for outstanding academic achievements
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2016 - First place at HUJI's annual machine learning hackathon
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2013 - Amirim science excellence scholarship for undergraduates
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2007 - Ranked in the 99th percentile in Israel's SAT equivalent (psychometric exam)
Publications
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2023 Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
Aviv Yaish, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar - In ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (CCS23)
- ACM CCS23 distinguished paper
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2023 Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar - In Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT23)
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2023 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)
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2022 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
Preprints
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2023 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
- Accepted to Tokenomics '23
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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 - Funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant
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2023 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)
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2023 Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish - Presented at Technion's Industrial Engineering & Management Research Day
- Accepted to the Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society
Teaching
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2018 - System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer
The Hebrew University - Sole lecturer and creator, course averages 850 students/year
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2017 - 2023 From NAND to Tetris (67925/6), lecturer
The Hebrew University - Sole lecturer, managed a team of 7 TAs, course averages 500 students/year
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2020 Introduction to Cryptocurrencies (67513), co-creator and TA
The Hebrew University
Undergraduate Project Supervision
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2022 - 2023 Nimrod Rak
The Hebrew University - Title: Simulating cryptocurrency networks using real clients
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2022 - 2022 Eytan Tsytkin
The Hebrew University - Title: Application of Big Data methods to cryptocurrencies
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2021 - 2022 Imri Paran
The Hebrew University - Title: An exploration of Bitcoin's attack surface
Service
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2024 - Program committee. MARBLE24.
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2023 - Program committee. ACM DeFi23 Workshop, MARBLE24.
- In-person volunteer. ACM EC23.
- Reviewer. ACM CCS23, ACM EC23, FC23 DeFi Workshop, WEIS23, FC24, SODA24, WWW24.
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2022 - Reviewer. IEEE S&P22, ACM WWW23, ACM-SIAM SODA23.
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2020 - Reviewer. ACM AFT20.
Talks
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2023 The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum -
2023 CBER Forums's Top Blockchain PhD Graduates Symposium
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum -
2023 Yale's CS Seminar (invited)
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum -
2023 Princeton's Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Cryptocurrencies seminar (invited)
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum -
2023 Tokenomics
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum -
2023 Advances in Financial Technologies
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying? -
2023 The Science of Decentralized Financial Stability Workshop (invited)
Suboptimality in DeFi -
2023 The 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 HUJI'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 (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?
Other
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2020-2022 Volunteered with elderly people with dementia
Melabev