CMU Secure Blockchain Summit

May 8-9, 2022

Simmons Auditorium, Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University

 

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Summit will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss the future of blockchain research, technology, and applications, focusing on a variety of topics, including crypto-economics, applied cryptography, programming languages, security and privacy, policy and usability, ethics, equity, and more.

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 About    |    Schedule    |    Speakers

Organizers    |    Register    |    Sponsors

 

About

Despite advances, many research questions still need answering to ensure blockchain protocols and applications are ready for widespread use. As the industry continues to see more consumer applications, such as decentralized finance (DeFi), securing the fundamental research elements of the technology, especially from a security, privacy, ethics, and societal impact perspective, is of utmost importance.

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Summit will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss the future of blockchain research, technology, and applications, focusing on a variety of topics, including crypto-economics, applied cryptography, programming languages, security and privacy, policy and usability, ethics, and equity.
 

Schedule 

Please check back for updates

Day 1

  • 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Dinner reception to follow

 
Day 2

  • 9:00 AM to 4:15 PM

 
Sessions and topics (dates and times TBA):

  • Cryptoeconomics
  • Applied Cryptography 
  • Programming Language
  • Policy and Usability 
  • Ethics and Equity 
  • Lightning Talks
     

Speakers

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Jonathan Aldrich
Professor
CMU's Computer Science
Department

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Fraser Brown
Assistant Professor
CMU's Software and Societal
Systems Department

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Benedikt Bunz
Assistant Professor
NYU Courant

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Hao Chung
Ph.D. Student
CMU's Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department

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Sauvik Das
Assistant Professor
CMU's Human-Computer
Interaction Institute

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Isil Dillig
C
o-founder
Veridise Inc.

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Arthur Gervais
Associate Professor 
University College London

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Hanan Hibshi
Assistant Teaching Professor
CMU's Information Networking Institute

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Jan Hoffmann
Assistant Professor 
CMU's Computer Science
Department

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Tae Wan Kim
Associate Professor 
CMU's Tepper School of Business

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Hugo Krawczyk
Principal Researcher
Algorand Foundation

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Lisa Masserova
Graduate Research Assistant
CMU's Computer Science
Department
 

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Andrew Miller
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign

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Andrew Myers
Professor
Cornell University

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Alex Ozdemir
Ph.D. Student 
Stanford University 

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Tal Rabin
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

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Martin Saint
Director of Academics
CMU-Africa

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Robert Townsend
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Matt Weinberg
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
 

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Ke Wu
Ph.D. Student 
CMU's Computer Science Department

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Osman Yagan
Research Professor
CMU's Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department 

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Mingxun Zhou
Ph.D. Student
CMU's Computer Science
Department

Secure Blockchain Summit Committee

Elaine Shi'

Elaine Shi
C
o-director
Blockchain@CMU Initiative

Nicolas Christin

Nicolas Christin
Co-director
Blockchain@CMU Initiative

Ariel Zetlin-Jones

Ariel Zetlin-Jones
C
o-director
Blockchain@CMU Initiative

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Fraser Brown
Assistant Professor
Software and Societal
Systems Department

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Michael Lisanti
Director
CyLab Partnerships

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Isabelle Glassmith
Project Manager
CyLab Partnerships

Register

If you are interested in attending, please complete the Google form or contact CyLab's partnerships team at partnerships@cylab.cmu.edu'
  

Thank you to our inaugural Summit sponsors!


Secure Blockchain Institute Circle Sponsors

Algorand Foundation Logo, Ripple Logo

Secure Blockchain Sponsorship Opportunities

We are offering a limited number of sponsorship opportunities to companies and organizations seeking to support the CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative and Summit. For more information, please contact the CyLab partnerships team at partnerships@cylab.cmu.edu
 

 
CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative (Blockchain@CMU)

The CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative is supported by seed sponsorships from Algorand Foundation and Ripple. Our goal is to work together with industry partners to ensure that the research outputs are relevant and applicable to the challenges faced by the blockchain industry.

Learn more about partnering with Blockchain@CMU.