CyLab announces first round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects
Ryan Noone
Jun 22, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) is off and running, as six projects have been selected for its first round of seed funding.
Through research, the initiative aims to revolutionize blockchain technology within enterprise ecosystems by tackling various challenges, including enhancing consensus mechanisms and scalability, exploring cryptocurrencies and markets, advancing cryptography, implementing formal verification, and addressing regulation, policy, and governance concerns.
Led by co-directors Nicolas Christin, Elaine Shi, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones, the multi-year CyLab initiative intends to develop a suite of novel foundations and technologies focused on three key thrusts:
- Cryptoeconomics: Cryptography, Consensus, and Verification
- Applications and Implementations
- Cryptocurrencies, Tokenized Assets, and Policy
Funded Projects
Analysis and Optimization of Resilience in Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Osman Yagan - Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Modeling Barriers to Self-Custody for Cryptocurrency Novices
- Sauvik Das - Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)
- Jason Hong - Professor, HCII
Blockchain Censorship
- Nicolas Christin - Professor, Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) & Software and Societal Systems (S3D)
Accountability for Unlinkable, Anonymous Transactions
- Giulia Fanti - Assistant Professor, ECE
- Elaine Shi - Associate Professor, Computer Science Department (CSD) & ECE
Investigating Common Security Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Software
- Hanan Hibshi - Assistant Teaching Professor, Information Networking Institute (INI)
The Value of Bitcoin Options
- Lars-Alexander Kuehn - Associate Professor, Tepper School of Business
Funding for these projects is made possible by the following sponsors:
