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, 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
Conference Papers
- Alpos, O., Cachin, C., & Zanolini, L. (2021). How to Trust Strangers: Composition of Byzantine Quorum Systems. Proc. 40th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 120–131. https://doi.org/10.1109/SRDS53918.2021.00021
- Alpos, O., Cachin, C., Marson, G. A., & Zanolini, L. (2021). On the Synchronization Power of Token Smart Contracts. Proc. 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 640–651. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS51616.2021.00067
- Alpos, O., & Cachin, C. (2020). Consensus Beyond Thresholds: Generalized Byzantine Quorums Made Live. Proc. 39th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 31–40. 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
- Cryptography, Master course at UniBe, Fall semester 2020
- Discrete Mathematics, Bachelor course at UniBe, Fall semester 2019