Mirza Ahad Baig
Postdoc
Cryptology and Data Security Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Bern
Neubrückstrasse 10
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Office 110
ahad.baig@unibe.ch
About me
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cryptology and Data Security Group at the University of Bern.
I am primarily interested in cryptography and distributed computing, but more broadly, I am interested in practically motivated problems in Theoretical Computer Science. Recently, I have been working on theoretical aspects of blockchains with a particular emphasis on security and efficiency. I have also started exploring the intersection of machine learning with cryptography and distributed computing.
Before my current position, I was a PhD Student in the Pietrzak Group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). I was fortunate to be advised by Krzysztof Pietrzak. Before starting PhD, I earned an MSc at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) in 2019. I was fortunate to be advised by Alessia Milani for my MSc Thesis. Even before that, I gained a BSc (Hons) at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) in 2017.
Research Interests
- Consensus Protocols: Security and Efficiency
- Distributed Systems
- Privacy Preserving Computation
Publications
My full list of publications is available on dblp and Google Scholar.