Orestis Alpos

Ph.D. student

Orestis Alpos

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, applied and threshold cryptography, 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

  1. Alpos, Orestis, Christian Cachin, and Luca Zanolini. 2021. “How to Trust Strangers: Composition of Byzantine Quorum Systems.” e-print, arXiv:2107.11331 [cs.DC]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11331.
  2. 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

  1. 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

Teaching