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Overview

Aggelos Kiayias is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Computer Science, with a focus on multiple subfields including Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers several major topics, notably Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Cryptography and Data Security, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Auction Theory and Applications, Cloud Data Security Solutions, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, and Cryptographic Implementations and Security.

Aggelos Kiayias has published extensively in different venues. Some of the frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Lecture notes in computer science, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the Journal of the ACM.

Their recent papers provide insight into the areas of their current research interests:

  • The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications, 2024, Journal of the ACM
  • Non-interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work, 2020, Lecture notes in computer science
  • PEReDi, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Implementing a Smart Contract PKI, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • The Generals' Scuttlebutt, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Juan A. Garay
  • Dimitris Karakostas
  • Dionysis Zindros
  • Giorgos Panagiotakos
  • Alexander Russell

Best Publications

  • Polynomial reconstruction based cryptography

    Aggelos Kiayias;Moti Yung

  • Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004

    Aggelos Kiayias;Yiannis Tsiounis;Moti Yung

  • The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications

    Juan A. Garay;Aggelos Kiayias;Nikos Leonardos

  • Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol

    Aggelos Kiayias;Alexander Russell;Bernardo David;Roman Oliynykov

  • Self Protecting Pirates and Black-Box Traitor Tracing

    Aggelos Kiayias;Moti Yung

  • Traitor Tracing with constant transmission rate

    Aggelos Kiayias;Moti Yung

  • The 26th USENIX Security Symposium 2017

    Nikolaos Alexopoulos;Aggelos Kiayias;Thomas Zacharias;Riivo Talviste

  • BiTR: built-in tamper resilience

    Seung Geol Choi;Aggelos Kiayias;Tal Malkin

  • Ouroboros Praos: An Adaptively-Secure, Semi-synchronous Proof-of-Stake Blockchain

    Bernardo David;Peter Gaži;Aggelos Kiayias;Alexander Russell

  • Robust key generation from signal envelopes in wireless networks

    Babak Azimi-Sadjadi;Aggelos Kiayias;Alejandra Mercado;Bulent Yener

  • Public Key Cryptography - Pkc 2006

    Moti Yung;Moti Yung;Yevgeniy Dodis;Yevgeniy Dodis;Aggelos Kiayias;Tal Malkin

  • Anonymous Identification in Ad Hoc Groups

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Aggelos Kiayias;Antonio Nicolosi;Victor Shoup

  • Delegatable Pseudorandom Functions and Applications.

    Aggelos Kiayias;Stavros Papadopoulos;Nikos Triandopoulos;Thomas Zacharias

  • The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol with Chains of Variable Difficulty

    Juan A. Garay;Aggelos Kiayias;Nikos Leonardos

  • Blockchain Mining Games

    Aggelos Kiayias;Elias Koutsoupias;Maria Kyropoulou;Yiannis Tselekounis

  • Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability

    Christian Badertscher;Peter Gaži;Aggelos Kiayias;Alexander Russell

  • Self-tallying Elections and Perfect Ballot Secrecy

    Aggelos Kiayias;Moti Yung

  • Scalability, fidelity and stealth in the DRAKVUF dynamic malware analysis system

    Tamas K. Lengyel;Steve Maresca;Bryan D. Payne;George D. Webster

  • Proof-of-Stake Sidechains

    Peter Gazi;Aggelos Kiayias;Dionysis Zindros

  • Multi-query computationally-private information retrieval with constant communication rate

    Jens Groth;Aggelos Kiayias;Helger Lipmaa

  • Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability.

    Christian Badertscher;Peter Gazi;Aggelos Kiayias;Alexander Russell

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Russell
Alexander Russell University of Connecticut
Moti Yung
Moti Yung Columbia University
Juan A. Garay
Juan A. Garay Texas A&M University
Yevgeniy Dodis
Yevgeniy Dodis New York University
Helger Lipmaa
Helger Lipmaa University of Tartu
Hugo Krawczyk
Hugo Krawczyk Amazon (United States)
Bülent Yener
Bülent Yener Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Markulf Kohlweiss
Markulf Kohlweiss University of Edinburgh
Stanislaw Jarecki
Stanislaw Jarecki University of California, Irvine
Tal Malkin
Tal Malkin Columbia University

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