Juan Villacis

Ph.D. student

Juan Villacis

Cryptology and Data Security Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Bern
Neubrückstrasse 10
3012 Bern, Switzerland

Office 115
juan.villacis@unibe.ch

About

I am a PhD student in the Cryptology and Data Security Group at the University of Bern. My research interests focus on distributed systems, with a particular emphasis on asymmetric trust and fault-tolerant algorithms. Before joining the University of Bern, I studied computer science at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology and at ETH Zürich.

Publications

My full list of publications is available on dblp.

  1. Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust
    Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Juan Villacis
    In OPODIS 2025

  2. Brief Announcement: Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust (short paper)
    Christian Cachin, Juan Villacis
    In DISC 2025

  3. DAG-based Consensus with Asymmetric Trust
    Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Juan Villacis, Luca Zanolini
    In PODC 2025

  4. Deanonymizing Ethereum Validators: The P2P Network Has a Privacy Issue
    Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Juan Villacis, Lucianna Kiffer, Roger Wattenhofer
    In USENIX Security 2025