Employment Experiences

SSV.Labs - Blockchain Researcher and Protocol Engineer
2023 - Present

• Paper publication on NSDI’24 as a result of my master’s thesis.
• Research on scalability providing optimizations on the BFT consensus, cryptography, and network.
• Research on network topology and its reduction to the NP-Hard General Assignment Problem (GAP).
• Research on the anonymity and performance trade-off of gossip protocols.
• Optimization study on GossipSub’s parameters (a gossip protocol) for metrics such as delivery time, message amplification, and robustness.
• Survey on state-of-the-art cryptography schemes (including Quantum) regarding their performance and security threats.
• Formal proofs on protocol properties and susceptibility of attacks, following Lamport’s proof format.
• BLS aggregation optimization based on network statistics and attack detection.
• Survey on P2P attacks and mitigation techniques.
• Logic-based validation as a defense against DoS.