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Career

· Professor of Information Security, University College London (UCL)2023–
· Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Imperial College London2017–2022
· Co-Founder & CEO, Liquidity Network2017–2022
· PhD Student, ETH Zurich2012–2016
· Affiliate Faculty, UC Berkeley RDI

Publications (71)

On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2016
1,630
cited
Securify: Practical Security Analysis of Smart Contracts
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2018
1,055
cited
Do you Need a Blockchain?
Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology · 2018
992
cited
Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency?
IEEE Security and Privacy · 2014
322
cited
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2021
313
cited
SoK: Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols
Financial Cryptography · 2020
272
cited
Revive: Rebalancing Off-Blockchain Payment Networks
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2017
257
cited
ROTE: Rollback Protection for Trusted Execution
USENIX Security Symposium · 2017
242
cited
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2020
233
cited
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
Financial Cryptography · 2020
231
cited
Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2015
226
cited
XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2019
210
cited
Misbehavior in Bitcoin: A Study of Double-Spending and Accountability
TSEC · 2015
206
cited
ConFuzzius: A Data Dependency-Aware Hybrid Fuzzer for Smart Contracts
European Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2021
151
cited
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2021
140
cited
On the privacy provisions of Bloom filters in lightweight bitcoin clients
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2014
137
cited
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2022
133
cited
SoK: Off The Chain Transactions
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2019
127
cited
The Decentralized Financial Crisis
Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology · 2020
120
cited
An empirical study of DeFi liquidations: incentives, risks, and instabilities
ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference · 2021
110
cited
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