Alumni

PhD graduates

ISTA internal link to PhD theses from our group

Name, Thesis title, graduation date, current affiliation (possibly outdated)

• Michelle Yeo, Advances in efficiency and privacy in payment channel network analysis, graduated 2023, 

• Karen Klein, On the adaptive security of graph-based games, graduated 2021

• Chethan Kamath, On the average-case hardness of total search problems, graduated 2020

• Hamza Abusalah, Proof systems for sustainable decentralized cryptocurrencies, graduated 2018

• Michal Rybar, (The exact security of) Message authentication codes, graduated 2017

Postdoc Alumni

• Michael Walter, 2018-2021

• Suvradip Chakraborty,  2020-2021

• Georgia Avarikioti, 2021-2022

• Joel Alwen 

• Maciej Skorski 

• Peter Gazi 

• Georg Fuchsbauer 

• Stephan Krenn 

Interns and Visiting Students

Name, Affiliation during visit/inernship, (role,date of visit/internship)

• Sumedh Ghude, IIT Madras, (student intern, Summer 2023)

• Pengxiang Wang, University of Michigan, (ISTern, Summer 2023)

• Matthias Franz Pleschinger, Herz Jesu Gymnasium Salzburg, (student intern, Summer 2023)

• Konrad Klier, TU Wien, (summer intern, Summer 2023)

• Mahsa Bastankhah, Sharif University, (intern, Autumn 2021)

• Ahmadreza Rahimi, University of Virginia (visiting PhD student, 2019)

• Margarite Capretto, University of Rosaria/Argentina, (ISTern, Summer 2019)

• Miguel Cueto, University of Oviedo/Spain, (ISTern, Summer 2019)

• Arka Rai Choudhuri , John Hopkins, (graduate summer student, 2018)

• Samarth Tiwari , New York University (ISTern, Summer 2018)

• Sasha Lapiga , Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ISTern, Summer 2018)

• Anastasia Kucherenko , Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ISTern, Summer 2017)

• Mukesh Pareek , IIT Bombay (ISTern, Summer 2017)

• Hana Dlouha , CTU in Prague (ISTern, Summer 2017)

• Teresa Steiner, TU Wien (student intern, 2016)

• Danylo Khilko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ISTern, 2016)

• Zahra Jafargholi, UCLA (graduate summer student, 2014)

• Maciej Skorski, University of Warsaw (graduate summer student, 2012/13/14/15)

• Sophie Stevens, Bristol (ISTernship, 2014)

• Kristian Tokmakov, Oxford (ISTernship, 2014)

• Alexander Golovnev, NYU (graduate summer student, 2014)

• Momchil Konstantinov, Oxford (ISTernship, 2013)

• Vanishree Rao, UCLA (graduate summer student, 2013)

• Akshay Wadia, UCLA (graduate summer student, 2012)

• Aris Tentes, NYU (graduate summer student, 2011)