Hi! I’m a PhD student in computer science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Publications

  • Practical Light Clients for Committee-Based Blockchains, with F. Armknecht, G. Karame and C. Weis, 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
  • Mitigating Collusion in Proofs of Liabilities, with G. Karame, 2026 ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)
  • Protocols for Univariate Sumcheck, 2026 ACM ASIA Public-Key Cryptography Workshop (APKC@AsiaCCS)

Random Projects

  • Monomial-base sumcheck variants. Benchmarks showing the effects of saving a few addition and multiplication operations in monomial-base sumcheck.
  • Skinner. Small program to manage the color settings of terminal applications and sync them with macOS’s system-wide dark mode.
  • DKIC - DomainKeys Identified Content. A data authenticity system for static web sites served by third-party providers – like this site which is hosted on GitHub Pages. Intended to prevent the hoster/CDN from performing MITM attacks.

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