Talks

Some of the talks I have given.

2026

  • Colloquium talk at Duke CS Colloquium, "Reversing the Panopticon: Decentralized Auditing of Trusted Platforms", Durham, NC, Mar. 2026.
  • Keynote at Shape Rotator, "Reversing the Panopticon: Decentralized Auditing of Trusted Platforms", Mar. 2026.
  • Invited talk at DeCenter Seminar, "Equitable, Incentive-Compatible Block Building", Princeton, NJ, Feb. 2026. PPTX

2025

  • Invited talk at CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference, "Overview of Oracles", New York, NY, Oct. 2025.
  • Invited talk at ETH NYC'25, "Oracles, 'zkTLS', and Data Liberation", Cornell Tech, New York, NY, Aug. 2025.
  • Invited talk at NoConsensus.wtf 2025 @ SBC, "ZipNet", Berkeley, CA, Aug. 2025.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Blockchain Camp, "DECO: Oracles, 'zkTLS', and Data Liberation", Cornell Tech, New York, NY, Jun. 2025.

2024

  • Invited talk at Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure Distributed Computing, "Merry TEEs and Secure Distributed Computing", Dagstuhl, Germany, Sep. 2024.
  • Invited talk at SBC MEV Workshop 2024, "Using TEEs without trusting them", New York, NY, Aug. 2024.
  • Guest lecture at Berkeley DeFi MOOC, "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", Oct. 2024.
  • Invited talk at CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference, "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", Oct. 2024. PPTX
  • Invited talk at Decentralized Science (DeSci) Seminar, "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", University of Sydney (Remote), Oct. 2024.
  • Invited talk at Science of Blockchain Conference 2024 (SBC'24), "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", New York, NY, Aug. 2024. Video
  • Invited talk at IC3 Blockchain Camp, "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", New York, NY, Jun. 2024.
  • Invited talk at EC24 Workshop on Blockchains and Decentralized Finance, "Decentralization of Ethereum's builder market", Jul. 2024.

2023

  • Invited talk at Confidential Computing Consortium 2023, "Toward Trust Minimization in TEE and Applications", Apr. 2023.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Blockchain Camp, "zkBridge", New York, NY, Aug. 2023.

2022

  • Invited talk at 1st ACE Symposium on Privacy, Accountability, Verification, and Economics of Blockchain Systems, "zkBridge", New Haven, CT, Apr. 2022.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Blockchain Camp, "He-HTLC: revisiting incentives in HTLC", Ithaca, NY, Aug. 2022.
  • Invited talk at a16z, "He-HTLC: revisiting incentives in HTLC", New York, NY, Aug. 2022.

2021

  • Invited talk at The West Lake Forum on Network Security, "CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity", Online, Nov. 2021.

2020

  • Invited talk at JD Security Seminar, "The Oracle Problem", Nov. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers - Greater New York Chapter, "CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity", Oct. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Empire Hacking (organized by Trail of Bits), "CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity", Oct. 2020.
  • Invited talk at W3C Credential Community Group (CCG), "DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS", Oct. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Stanford Blockchain Conference (SBC'20), "DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS", Stanford University, Feb. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Real World Crypto (RWC'20), "DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS", New York City, Jan. 2020.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Webinar, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Aug. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Rutgers University, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Apr. 2020. . [Cancelled due to COVID-19.]
  • Invited talk at Purdue University, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020. . [Cancelled due to COVID-19.]
  • Invited talk at Washington University in St. Louis, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Duke University, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Georgetown University, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at ETH Zurich, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at University of California, Santa Cruz, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Mar. 2020.
  • Invited talk at University of California, Santa Barbara, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Feb. 2020.
  • Invited talk at Penn State, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Feb. 2020.
  • Invited talk at University at Buffalo, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Feb. 2020.

2019

  • Invited talk at CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Saarbrucken, Germany, Nov. 2019.
  • Invited talk at ETH Zurich, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", Oct. 2019.
  • Invited talk at IBM PhD Fellow Talk, "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World", IBM Watson Research Center, Sep. 2019.
  • Invited talk at ACM CCS'19, "CHURP: Proactive Secret Sharing with Dynamic Committee", London, UK, Nov. 2019.
  • Invited talk at Northeastern University, Cybersecurity Speaker Series, "On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization", Jan. 2019.
  • Invited talk at ACM AFT 2019, "Paralysis Proof", Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 2019.

2018

  • Invited talk at MIT, CSAIL, "On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization", Nov. 2018.
  • Invited talk at New York University, CS Colloquium, "On Trusted Hardware and Blockchain Hybridization", Oct. 2018.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Bootcamp, "CHURP: Proactive Secret Sharing with Dynamic Committee", Ithaca, NY, Jul. 2018.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Retreat, "Paralysis Proof", New York City, May. 2018.
  • Invited talk at 5th Bitcoin Workshop, Financial Crypto'18, "Paralysis Proof", Curacao, Mar. 2018.

2017

  • Invited talk at USENIX Security'17, "REM", Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2017.
  • Invited talk at Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup, "Town Crier", Santa Clara, CA, Aug. 2017.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Retreat, "Town Crier", San Francisco, CA, Mar. 2017.

2016

  • Invited talk at CCS'16, "Town Crier", Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2016.
  • Invited talk at IC3 Retreat, "Town Crier", New York City, May. 2016.