Publications

Publications 

I prefer and follow the global norms of theoretical computer science, so my publications are ordered alphabetically whenever I am the deciding author (i.e., the author with the most contribution) or when I work exclusively with TCS groups.

1. Pavel Hubáček, Michelle Yeo.
   On Cryptographic Cheap Talk with Smart Contracts
   Financial Cryptography (FC) 2026.

2. Pavel Hubáček, Jan Václavek, Michelle Yeo.
   Foundations of Fiat-Denominated Loans Collateralized by Cryptocurrencies.
   29th Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) 2025.

3. Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Matyáš Křišťan, Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
   Boosting Payment Channel Network Liquidity with Topology Optimization and Transaction Selection.
   39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2025.

4. Michelle Yeo and Haoqian Zhang.
   Rational Censorship Attack: Breaking Blockchain with a Blackboard.
   Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2025 (best student paper award).

5. Krishnendu Chatterjee, Seth Gilbert, Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
   When is liquid democracy possible? On the manipulation of variance.
   Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2025.

6. Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Iosif Salem, Stefan Schmid, Michelle Yeo.
   X-Transfer: Enabling and Optimizing Cross-PCN Transactions
   Financial Cryptography (FC) 2025.

7. Zeta Avarikioti, Mahsa Bastankhah, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
   Route discovery in private payment channel networks.
   8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT) 2024.

8. Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amirali Ebrahim-Zadeh, Mehrdad Karrabi, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Michelle Yeo, Djordje Zikelic.
   Fully Automated Selfish Mining Analysis in Efficient Proof Systems Blockchains.
   Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2024.

9. Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
   Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.
   Theoretical Computer Science 2024. 

10. Haoqian Zhang, Michelle Yeo, Vero Estrada-Galinanes, Bryan Ford.
    ZeroAuction: Zero-Deposit Sealed-bid Auction via Delayed Execution.
    8th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC) 2024.

11.  Orestis Alpos, Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Michelle Yeo.
    Eating sandwiches: Modular and lightweight elimination of transaction reordering attacks.
    Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) 2023.

12. Jonathan Scott, Michelle Yeo, Christoph H. Lampert.
    FedProp: Cross-client Label Propagation for Federated Semi-supervised Learning.
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2023.

13. Zeta Avarikioti, Tomasz Lizurej, Tomasz Michalak, Michelle Yeo.
    Lightning Creation Games.
    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2023.

14. Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
    Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.
    Sirocco 2023 (Best paper award).

15. Mahsa Bastankhah, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle Yeo.
    R2: Boosting Liquidity in Payment Channel Networks with Online Admission Control.
    Financial Cryptography (FC) 2023.

16. Samarth Tiwari, Michelle Yeo, Zeta Avarikioti, Iosif Salem, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Stefan Schmid.
    Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation.
    Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT) 2022.

17. Zeta Avarikioti, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Iosif Salem, Stefan Schmid, Samarth Tiwari, Michelle Yeo.
    Hide & Seek: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Payment Channel Networks.
    Financial Cryptography (FC) 2022.

18. Suvradip Chakraborty, Stefan Dziembowski, Małgorzata Gałązka, Tomasz Lizurej, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Michelle Yeo.
    Trojan-resilience without cryptography.
    Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2021.

19. Karen Klein, Guillermo Pascual-Perez, Michael Walter, Chethan Kamath, Margarita Capretto, Miguel Cueto, Ilia Markov, Michelle Yeo, Joël Alwen, Krzysztof Pietrzak.
    Keep the dirt: tainted treekem, adaptively and actively secure continuous group key agreement.
    IEEE Security & Privacy (S&P) 2021.

20. Krzysztof Pietrzak, Iosif Salem, Stefan Schmid, Michelle Yeo.
    LightPIR: Privacy-Preserving Route Discovery for Payment Channel Networks.
    IEEE International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2021.

21. Benedikt Auerbach, Suvradip Chakraborty, Karen Klein, Guillermo Pascual-Perez, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Michael Walter, Michelle Yeo.
    Inverse-Sybil Attacks in Automated Contact Tracing.
    The Cryptographer's Track at RSA Conference (CT-RSA) 2021.

22. Michelle Yeo, Tristan Fletcher, John Shawe-Taylor.
    Machine Learning in Fine Wine Price Prediction.
    Journal of Wine Economics 2015.