distributed algorithms

security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability, internet algorithmics, computational complexity

BEN FISCH (CO-DIRECTOR)

verifiability and privacy in information systems, cryptographic proof systems, blockchains

cryptographic protocols and security, theory of parallel and distributed systems, and discrete algorithms

dis­trib­uted sys­tems, encrypted data­bases, net­work­ing, and al­gorithms

verifiable and privacy-preserving computations, private and scalable blockchains and cryptocurrencies, building real-world privacy-preserving systems

KATERINA SOTIRAKI (JOINING JULY 2023)

theoretical Cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, complexity theory, secure computation


computer architecture, hardware security, post-quantum cryptography

security, privacy and scalability of decentralized systems, in particular those enabled by blockchains and trusted execution environments (TEEs)