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 🦧
firstname.lastname@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. In the past, I was a research intern at the Stellar Development Foundation and the Ethereum Foundation.

Publications

My full list of publications is available on dblp.

  1. Symmetry all the way down
    Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, Juan Villacis
    In DISC 2026

  2. Weaker Assumptions for Asymmetric Trust
    Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, Juan Villacis
    In OPODIS 2025

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