I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI at Tel Aviv University, hosted by Prof. Inbal Talgam-Cohen.

I research security in blockchains and decentralized systems from a game-theoretic perspective. Decentralized systems are often pseudonymous and open, and when participants can profit by deviating from protocol, security vulnerabilities arise. I model decentralized systems to understand when deviations are profitable and design mechanisms to disincentivize deviation. To this end, I often use computational tools, such as reinforcement learning.

I received my Ph.D. from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at the Technion, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ittay Eyal and Prof. Aviv Tamar. My research was supported, in part, by the Technion Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center, and the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts. I also received an M.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) in computer science from the Technion and a B.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) in applied mathematics from Bar-Ilan University.