Christian Cachin

Cryptographer and computer scientist interested in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols, and security. Professor of computer science at the University of Bern. Short bio. More pics.

Research interests

• Blockchain and consensus protocols
• Consistency and integrity of cloud services
• Cryptographic protocols
• Cloud-computing security

More about my research can be found under research topics.

Publications

Current professional activities

• PODC 2023, PC member
• Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC ‘23), Program co-chair
• ConsensusDay 22, Workshop @ ACM CCS 2022, PC member
• DISC 2022, PC member
• 4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2022), PC member
• Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC 2022), PC member
• Science and Engineering of Consensus (Workshop at SBC 2022), Invited talk: Beyond Asymmetric Quorum Systems
• 4th Blockchain Technology Symposium (BTS 2022), Keynote talk

• 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEESP 2022), PC member

• Distributed Computing (Journal), Associate Editor

• ACM Advances in Financial Technologies, Steering Committee

Past professional activities

And otherwise … on the lake, on a bike, or in the snow.