Reviewing, Organisation, and Presentations

Program Committee member: 

• IWPE2024

• FC2024

• IWPE23

• Usenix Security 2022 (3 submission rounds)

• IWPE2021

• Usenix Security 2021 conference (3 submission rounds)

• IWPE 2020 workshop

• CBT 2019 workshop

• IWPE 2019 workshop

• IWPE 2018 workshop

• IWPE 2017 workshop

• IWPE 2016 workshop

Scientific reviewer: 

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security  journal, review of one article, 2022

• Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, review and rebuttal of one article,  2014.

External/sub-reviewer:

• PoPETS 2019 conference

• CSF 2019 conference (3 reviews)

• EuroS&P 2018 conference

• PoPETS 2017 conference (2 reviews)

• DPM 2016 workshop

• Infer 2016 workshop

• ESORICS 2013 conference

Publicity Chair:

• Infer 2016 

Organization:

• Real-World decentralized Cryptography (RWdC), virtual, colocated with Real-World Cryptography 2021 (RWC'21), co-organizing with Prof. Aniket Kate, 15th January 2021. 

• Blockchain Interoperability and Sharding (BIS), virtual, co-located with Distributed Computing 2020 (DISC'20), co-organizing with Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias,16th October 2020. 

I have also informally helped out in many internal/external events organised at TU Darmstadt and KU Leuven such as:

• IPICS Summer school, Leuven, Belgium, mid July 2016. 

• International Courses On Cyber Security and Cryptography, COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium, mid June 2015. 

• Number Theory and Cryptography event, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2013

• Prof. Johannes Buchmann Group (CDC) retreat, located at Höchst, Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, May 2012

Panel Participation:

• Panel on "End-to-end Privacy", organised by Heliax, 20 July, Paris, event co-located with ETHCC 2021. 

• Panel on "The history of P2P", virtual event, organised by Streamr, Zug, 29th September 2020. 

• Panel on "Privacy-preserving messaging", EthCC, organised by Web3 Foundation, Paris, 5 March 2019.

• Panel on technical session summary, acatech symposium part of the research project Internet-Privacy, Berlin, 15 May 2012.

Selected Talks:

• "No privacy solution is an island", Privacy in Cosmos event, co-located with ETHAmsterdam and DevConnect, 15 April 2022. 

• Bitcoin Suisse Crypto Outlook 2021 Presentation, "Interoperability", invited talk, 29 January 2021. 

• [Keynote] "Research at Web3 Foundation", Asia Web3 Forum, recorded presentation, invited talk, Shanghai, 29 October 2020.   

• [Short Talk] "What are Polkadot's needs from the P2P stack?" invited talk, At an event called: P2P - Where Are We with the Ecosystem and How to Push It Forward?, a Devcon 5 workshop, Osaka, Japan, 08 October 2019. 

• "Multi-party routing: Secure routing for Mixnets", invited talk, DEDIS lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 August 2018.

• "What Deters Jane from Preventing Identification and Tracking on the Web?" invited talk, ESAT/COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium, 25 September 2014. 

• "Robust Elections: Extending Civitas Towards Robustness", invited talk, CDC Oberseminar, TU Darmstadt, Germany, 27 January 2011.