Video from the CUSO Winter School in Computer Science in Champery. youtube.com/watch?v=WntYNa… winterschool2024.inf.unibe.ch

At the end of our Hands-On Deep Learning lab disco.ethz.ch/courses/fs24/h…, we organized a hackathon on April 19. 64 participants in 24 teams worked hard to develop an image generative AI for synthetic data generation. Congratulations to all teams that participated in the challenge!

Register here to attend Gavin Wood's Gavin Wood talk on Core Jam at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 23, 16.15, Main Building F7. finsuretech.ethz.ch/events/finsure…

"Stability of P2P Networks Under Greedy Peering" wins the best paper award at SIROCCO’24! The paper studies how (and if) P2P topologies stabilize when nodes make peering decisions greedily. Congrats Rajmohan and Lulu Lucianna Kiffer! (Photo Lulu with Yuval Emek)

A bunch of us attend ICLR 2024 in Vienna. Among the papers presented was a novel graph generation by Andreas Bergmeister et al. using a denoising diffusion process... tik-db.ee.ethz.ch/file/11794cae2…

... and a new ML-based Graph Drawing approach by Florian Grötschla et al. ... arxiv.org/pdf/2402.06706

... and GraphChef: A GNN explanation method not just for a single sample graph but a whole dataset of graphs by Peter Müller et al. The image shows our (scientifically 100% correct!) automatically learned recipe explaining which proteins are enzymes. tik-db.ee.ethz.ch/file/fdd69ed86…

As we have been reminded recently by the Compound DAO incident, governance attacks are a reality. What attack vectors are exploited most often, and which factors facilitate attacks? This is what we set to find out in our Systemization of Knowledge on Attacks on DAOs. (1/8)

I’m looking to hire a PhD student to join my new group at IMDEA Networks in Madrid! If you’re into P2P networks, blockchain, or cryptocurrency protocols (theory or measurements), let’s connect! Know someone who might be interested? Please pass this along! networks.imdea.org/job/phd-positi…

Our work on Ethereum validator anonymity is now online (thanks for sharing, Seres István András)! Excited to be presenting it this Friday at the TUM Blockchain Conference. Shout out to TUM Blockchain Club for hosting!

Andreas Plesner@andreas_plesner shows that Google's standard CAPTCHAs cannot distinguish humans from bots. Article in New Scientist: newscientist.com/article/244868… Original paper: tik-db.ee.ethz.ch/file/7243c3cde…

The AI Center of ETH Zurich just announced their yearly fellowships. Please apply! ai.ethz.ch/education/phd-…

Banyan wins the best paper award at ACM/IFIP MIDDLEWARE 2024. Congrats to Yann Vonlanthen Yann Vonlanthen, Jakub Sliwinski Kobi and Massimo Albarello Massimo Albarello. tik-db.ee.ethz.ch/file/2630cf3a7…

Mose Mizrahi Erbes wins the best paper award at OPODIS 2024 for the quit-resistant reliable broadcast paper. His innovation helps combining subroutines in larger protocols since processes can quit during execution. Congrats, Mose! drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipi…

"How AI Sees Art" (Florian Grötschla, Roger Wattenhofer) is exhibited at the CES 2025 in Las Vegas!

Our paper demonstrating that Ethereum validators can be deanonymized has been accepted at USENIX Security 2025! The P2P network leaks a lot of information, posing a significant security concern, while offering insights into voting power decentralization in Ethereum.

Antonio Di Maio has an opening for a PhD position in our group: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Our EuroSpeech data set is the number 1 trending data set on all of huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/disco…

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 “Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s: Why Blockspace Is Always in Demand” uncovers how speculative MEV bots are dominating gas usage on L2s and what this means for scalability and network health. 1/🧵

We have a PhD position opening: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…