TU Wien Informatics

20 Years

About

I joined the Security and Privacy group as a University Researcher in August 2021. My research interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchain interoperability and scalability, off-chain protocols and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Before starting my PhD at TUWien, I have been working for 9 months as a Salesforce developer at Deloitte Digital, Milan, Italy. After my Bachelor in Physics, I have done my Master in Nuclear and Particle Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. I graduated in 2019 with the thesis Analysis of the pi0 photoproduction in the Delta(1232) region.

Role

  • A blockchain-based IoT data marketplace / Sober, M., Scaffino, G., Schulte, S., & Kanhere, S. S. (2023). A blockchain-based IoT data marketplace. CLUSTER COMPUTING-THE JOURNAL OF NETWORKS SOFTWARE TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 26(6), 3523–3545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-022-03745-6
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    Project: CDL-BOT (2020–2025)
  • Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi / Scaffino, G., Aumayr, L., Avarikioti, G., & Maffei, M. (2023). Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi. In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (pp. 733–750).
    Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / CDL-BOT (2020–2025) / CoRaF (2022–2025) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026)
  • Distributed Key Generation with Smart Contracts using zk-SNARKs / Sober, M., Max Kobelt, Scaffino, G., Kaaser, D., & Schulte, S. (2023). Distributed Key Generation with Smart Contracts using zk-SNARKs. In SAC ’23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 231–240). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.34726/4523
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