05-29, 16:30–16:55 (CET), Flower
We will outline two alternative approaches to consensus protocols that reflect the current trends of ever growing utilization of zk-SNARKs as well as social capital and attention-based economy. First, we will outline a few design concepts related to Proof-of-Usefull-Work with mining of SNARK and zk-SNARK proofs. Next, we will describe how social capital can replace or co-occur with stake in PoS.
We will summarize the results of 3 MSc thesis that were created at our university in recent 1 year.
Ivan is currently an associate at the Brno University of Technology and he focuses on applied research in the area of system security. Ivan is interested in designing, implementing, and optimizing novel systems and solutions, emphasizing system security. In particular, Ivan focuses on blockchain-based authentication schemes, consensus protocols, electronic voting in blockchains, decentralized identity, and even central bank digital currency (CBDC) with minimized trust.
Ivan has a Ph.D. in the area of adversarial intrusion detection in network traffic from Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology (BUT FIT), Czech Republic (2016) and he obtained an associate professorship at the same university in 2016 with habilitation called Towards Secure Decentralized Applications and Consensus Protocols in Blockchains.
Ivan earned a Master of Science degree from the BUT FIT (2012) in the areas of intrusion detection and supervised machine learning.
Ivan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD and worked on a project aimed at testing of security aspects of blockchains and designing new solutions and protocols. Before that, he worked in SUTD on a project focusing on insider threat detection - the application of machine learning for the detection of insider threats. Ivan is the main author of SmartOTPS - the 1st OTP scheme for smart contract wallets.