Digital Trust and Decentralization
Event details
| Date | 04.02.2020 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Lefteris Kokoris Kogias |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
In the last decades, computing managed to scale societies and bring everyone closer. We Live in an era of efficiency and speed.
Speed, however, is the enemy of trust. Trust needs friction and time to be built and the current large-scale institutions, such as the Media and the Government, are failing to evolve fast enough on their own. In this talk we are going to explore the evolution of trust in our society and investigate the latest explosion of interest in digital and decentralised trust technologies.
To this end, I am going to present both theoretical and practical advancements of my research in the last few years focusing on Byzantine Fault Tolerant systems and algorithms, answering questions such as: how can we get scalable decentralised systems able to support the current financial ecosystems, and how can we scavenge randomness from multiple semi-trustworthy players to run publicly-verifiable lotteries or to audit elections
Short bio
Lefteris is a Postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, working with Prof. Bryan Ford.
His research is in the intersection of computer security and distributed systems.
More specifically he is interested in increasing the digital trust of online information and processes, especially those that impact the physical world.
He has been working on building a scalable and robust infrastructure for
the future decentralised internet focusing on scalable blockchain systems, bias-resistant decentralised randomness generation, secure software update dispersion and novel applications of threshold cryptography and distributed consensus.
His work has been published in top tier computer science conferences like USENIX Security and IEEE Security & Privacy.
He has been awarded twice the IBM PhD Fellowship, the EPFL EDIC Fellowship, and the NTUA Thomaidio Award.
In the last decades, computing managed to scale societies and bring everyone closer. We Live in an era of efficiency and speed.
Speed, however, is the enemy of trust. Trust needs friction and time to be built and the current large-scale institutions, such as the Media and the Government, are failing to evolve fast enough on their own. In this talk we are going to explore the evolution of trust in our society and investigate the latest explosion of interest in digital and decentralised trust technologies.
To this end, I am going to present both theoretical and practical advancements of my research in the last few years focusing on Byzantine Fault Tolerant systems and algorithms, answering questions such as: how can we get scalable decentralised systems able to support the current financial ecosystems, and how can we scavenge randomness from multiple semi-trustworthy players to run publicly-verifiable lotteries or to audit elections
Short bio
Lefteris is a Postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, working with Prof. Bryan Ford.
His research is in the intersection of computer security and distributed systems.
More specifically he is interested in increasing the digital trust of online information and processes, especially those that impact the physical world.
He has been working on building a scalable and robust infrastructure for
the future decentralised internet focusing on scalable blockchain systems, bias-resistant decentralised randomness generation, secure software update dispersion and novel applications of threshold cryptography and distributed consensus.
His work has been published in top tier computer science conferences like USENIX Security and IEEE Security & Privacy.
He has been awarded twice the IBM PhD Fellowship, the EPFL EDIC Fellowship, and the NTUA Thomaidio Award.
Practical information
- General public
- Free