Talks

Some of the talks I have given.

2025

“Overview of Oracles”, CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference — October 2025
“Oracles, ‘zkTLS’, and Data Liberation”, ETH NYC'25 — August 2025
“ZipNet”, NoConsensus.wtf 2025 @ SBC — August 2025
“DECO: Oracles, ‘zkTLS’, and Data Liberation”, IC3 Blockchain Camp — June 2025

“Merry TEEs and Secure Distributed Computing”, Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure Distributed Computing, Germany - September 2024
“Using TEEs without trusting them”, SBC MEV Workshop 2024 — August 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, Guest lecture at Berkeley DeFi MOOC — October 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference — October 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, Decentralized Science (DeSci) Seminar, University of Sydney (Remote) — October 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC), New York, NY — August 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, IC3 Blockchain Camp, New York, NY — June 2024
“Decentralization of Ethereum’s builder market”, EC24 Workshop on Blockchains and Decentralized Finance — July 2024

“Toward Trust Minimization in TEE and Applications”, Confidential Computing Consortium 2023 — April 2023
“zkBridge”, IC3 Blockchain Camp, New York, NY — August 2023

“zkBridge”, 1st ACE Symposium on Privacy, Accountability, Verification, and Economics of Blockchain Systems, New Haven, CT — April 2022
“He-HTLC: revisiting incentives in HTLC”, IC3 Blockchain Camp, Ithaca, NY — August 2022
“He-HTLC: revisiting incentives in HTLC”, a16z, New York, NY — August 2022

“CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity”, The West Lake Forum on Network Security (Online) — November 2021

“The Oracle Problem”, JD Security Seminar — November 2020
“CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity”, Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers – Greater New York Chapter — October 2020
“CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity”, Empire Hacking (organized by Trail of Bits) — October 2020
DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS
- W3C Credential Community Group (CCG) — October 2020
- Stanford Blockchain Conference (SBC'20), Stanford University — February 2020
- Real World Crypto (RWC'20), New York City — January 2020
Connecting Blockchains to the Real World
- IC3 Webinar — August 2020
- Rutgers University — April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
- Purdue University — March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
- Washington University in St. Louis — March 2020
- Duke University — March 2020
- Georgetown University — March 2020
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — March 2020
- ETH Zürich — March 2020
- University of California, Santa Cruz — March 2020
- University of California, Santa Barbara — February 2020
- Penn State — February 2020
- University at Buffalo — February 2020
- CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany — November 2019
- ETH Zürich — October 2019
- IBM PhD Fellow Talk, IBM Watson Research Center — September 2019

CHURP: Proactive Secret Sharing with Dynamic Committee
- ACM CCS'19, London, UK — November 2019
- IC3 Bootcamp, Ithaca, NY — July 2018
On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization
- Northeastern University, Cybersecurity Speaker Series — January 2019
Paralysis Proof, ACM AFT 2019, Zürich, Switzerland — October 2019

“On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization”, MIT, CSAIL — November 2018
“On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization”, New York University, CS Colloquium — October 2018
“Paralysis Proof”, IC3 Retreat, New York City — May 2018
“Paralysis Proof”, 5th Bitcoin Workshop, Financial Crypto'18, Curaçao — March 2018