CMU Secure Blockchain Summit

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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 

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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

Jonathan Aldrich Professor CMU's Computer Science Department

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

Benedikt Bunz Assistant Professor NYU Courant

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

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

Isil Dillig Co-founder Veridise Inc.

Arthur Gervais Associate Professor  University College London

Hanan Hibshi Assistant Teaching Professor CMU's Information Networking Institute

Jan Hoffmann Assistant Professor  CMU's Computer Science Department

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

Hugo Krawczyk Principal Researcher Algorand Foundation

Lisa Masserova Graduate Research Assistant CMU's Computer Science Department

Andrew Miller Assistant Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Andrew Myers Professor Cornell University

Alex Ozdemir Ph.D. Student  Stanford University

Tal Rabin Professor University of Pennsylvania

Martin Saint Director of Academics CMU-Africa

Robert Townsend Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matt Weinberg Assistant Professor Princeton University

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

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

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

Secure Blockchain Summit Committee

Elaine Shi Co-director Blockchain@CMU Initiative

Nicolas Christin Co-director Blockchain@CMU Initiative

Ariel Zetlin-Jones Co-director Blockchain@CMU Initiative

Fraser Brown Assistant Professor Software and Societal Systems Department

Michael Lisanti Director CyLab Partnerships

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

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.