Orestis Alpos
Ph.D. student
Cryptology and Data Security Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Bern
Neubrückstrasse 10
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Office 114
orestis.alpos@inf.unibe.ch
About
I am a second-year PhD student at University of Bern. My research interests include distributed systems and blockchains, consensus protocols, and multiparty computation.
Prior to joining UniBe, I graduated from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens. I did my master thesis on network security with deep learning methods at Netmode Lab.
Publications
Recent work
- Alpos, Orestis, Christian Cachin, Giorgia Azzurra Marson, and Luca Zanolini. 2021. “On the Synchronization Power of Token Smart Contracts.” e-print, arXiv:2101.05543 [cs.DC]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05543.
Conference Papers
- Alpos, Orestis, and Christian Cachin. 2020. “Consensus Beyond Thresholds: Generalized Byzantine Quorums Made Live.” In Proc. 39th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1109/SRDS51746.2020.00010.
Talks and presentations
- Consensus beyond thresholds: Generalized byzantine quorums made live, presentation at SRDS 2020
- Multiparty computation based on secret sharing (mainly SDPZ), presentation at our CRYPTO research seminar
Teaching
In Fall Semester 2020 I was a teaching assistant in the master course ‘Cryptography’, and in Fall Semester 2019 I assisted in the bachelor course ‘Discrete Mathematics’ at UniBe.