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Senior Researcher

PhD in Computer Science

• Supervised by Roger Wattenhofer at the Distributed Computing Group.
• Teaching role includes supervision of student projects, (head) teaching assistant in lectures offered by our group, and conducting, writing, and grading of exam
• Scientific staff representative in the department and member of a student panel for a faculty hiring committee.

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

• Graduated with honors and awarded an ETH medal for exceptional M.Sc. thesis.
• Exchange semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Teaching assistant for Numerical Methods and Discrete Mathematics lectures.
• Organization of Electrical Engineering for ETH Students (EE4ETH). EE4ETH is a student initiated and led project to produce short video tutorials explaining the core concepts of mandatory courses in the Bachelor program.
• Student representative in the department and member of a faculty hiring committee.

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

• Teaching assistant for Linear Algebra and Numerical Methods lectures.
• Student representative in the department.

Research Consultant

• Writing statement of work proposals for prospective clients.
• Guiding blockchain projects in developing protocols through targeted research support.

Research Intern

• Ph.D. summer research internship program in the crypto research team.
• Worked on transaction fee mechanisms and empirical measurements.

Senior Associate

• PhD Fellowship Programme at Monetary and Economic Department.
• Worked on measuring and determining the drivers of leverage in decentralized finance.

Teaching Assistant

• Taught first- and second-year electrical engineering students in mathematics courses: Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, and Discrete Mathematics.

• Robust Incentives Group at Ethereum Foundation research grant [30,000 US$]
• Ethereum Foundation research grant [30,000 US$]
• Sui acadmic research award [25,000 US$]
• Awarded bug bounty by the Ethereum Foundation.

• Best talk award at the 22nd Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS).
• Institute for Quantitative Research Europe (Inquire Europe) research grant [10,000€].

• ETH Medal for exceptional M.Sc. thesis.

• ETH mobility scholarship.
• The Rector's Impulse Fund to develop EE4ETH [24,600CHF].

• PC member: CCS, FC

• PC member: FC, AFT, CAAW@WWW
• External reviewer: STOC

• PC member: AFT, CAAW@WWW, SIB@AFT, DeFi@CSS

• PC member: DeFi@CCS
• External reviewer: DISC, PODC

• Invited reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• External reviewer: FC, AFT, WWW, OSDI, MobiCom

• External reviewer: FC, AFT, WWW

• Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s @ MEV Workshop at the Science of Blockchain Conference (MEV-SBC)
• DeFi in Context: Dynamics and Interactions within the Blockchain Ecosystem @ Ethereum Züri
• DeFi in Context: Dynamics and Interactions within the Blockchain Ecosystem @ Oxford-Harvard Conference on Decentralised Finance
• SoK: Attacks on DAOs @ IC3 Winter Retreat 2025

• PBS and Non-Atomic Arbitrage @ Decentralized Systems Lab
• Non-Atomic Arbitrage in DeFi @ Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum
• Non-Atomic Arbitrage in DeFi @ Flashbots Research Seminar
• SoK: The Potential of Self-Regulation for Front-Running Prevention on Decentralized Exchanges @ IC3 Winter Retreat 2024

• Front-running in Decentralized Finance and Possible Solutions @ ETH-NUS FinsureTech Conference
• Turmoil in DeFi Lending Markets @ DeFOx (Seminar of the Decentralised Finance Research Group at Oxford University)
• Front-running in Decentralized Finance and Possible Solutions @ Complexity Science Hub Vienna

• SoK: Preventing Transaction Reordering Manipulations in Decentralized Finance @ Schloss Dagstuhl seminar 22421: Security of Decentralized Financial Technologies
• Eliminating Sandwich Attacks with the Help of Game Theory @ Protocol Labs Research Seminar

• Behavior of Liquidity Providers in Decentralized Exchanges @ Morgan Stanley Quant Research Colloquium