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General Information
Full Name | Aviv Yaish |
Research Interests | Blockchains, Economics, Security, Decentralized Finance, Mechanism Design |
aviv@avivyaish.com |
Publications
- 2023
Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum
Aviv Yaish, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar
- In ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (CCS23)
- 2023
Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar
- In Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT23)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 2022
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
Honors, Awards and Funding
- 2023
- 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)
- 2022
- HUJI Authority for Research Students' travel grant
- Vaad Edat Hasfaradim’s scholarship
- 2021
- Award for excellence in HUJI's teaching evaluation survey
- Ethereum Foundation bug bounty (awarded, did not collect)
- 2020
- Ranked 9th out of 111 teaching staff in HUJI's CS department
- 2019
- Ze’ev Jabotinsky 4 year merit-based fellowship
- Zcash Foundation Zcon1 travel scholarship
- 2018
- HUJI Rector's prize for ranking first in MSc class
- HUJI Dean's award for outstanding academic achievements
- 2016
- First place at HUJI's annual machine learning hackathon
- 2013
- Amirim science excellence scholarship for undergraduates
- 2011
- Israeli Defense Forces certificate of appreciation
- 2010
- Israeli Defense Forces department excellence award
- 2007
- Ranked in the 99th percentile in Israel's SAT equivalent (psychometric exam)
Research Positions
- 2023 - 2023
Research Associate (Internship)
Matter Labs
- 2023 -
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
- 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
Service
- 2023
- Program committee. ACM DeFi23 Workshop.
- In-person volunteer. ACM EC23.
- Reviewer. ACM CCS23, ACM EC23, FC23 DeFi Workshop, WEIS23.
- 2022
- Reviewer. IEEE S&P22, ACM WWW23, ACM-SIAM SODA23.
- 2020
- Reviewer. ACM AFT20.
Teaching
- 2018 -
System Introduction (67100), creator and lecturer
The Hebrew University
- Sole lecturer and creator, course averages 850 students/year
- 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
- 2020
Introduction to Cryptocurrencies (67513), co-creator and TA
The Hebrew University
Undergraduate Project 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 - 2022
Imri Paran
The Hebrew University
- Title: An exploration of Bitcoin's attack surface
Talks
- 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
- 2020-2022
Volunteered with elderly people with dementia
Melabev