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. Brief Announcement: Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust
    Christian Cachin, Juan Villacis
    In DISC 2025

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

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