Aviv likes breaking things: pushing systems to their limits and understanding how they fail is fundamental to making them more robust, secure, and economically sound. This drives his research into the economics and security of distributed systems.
He is currently a postdoc at Yale, hosted by Fan Zhang, and co-hosted by Ben Fisch, Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou, and Zhong Shao. He is also a member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts (IC3) and Yale’s Applied Crypto Lab (YACL). Additionally, he is a visiting researcher at Innsbruck University, hosted by Rainer Böhme. Previously, he did his PhD with Aviv Zohar at HUJI, where he also was the sole lecturer of two large-scale courses.
He is thankful for the recognition his work has received. Among other honors, the CBER Forum named him one of the top PhD graduates of 2023-2024, and he was named as one of the top 10 teaching staff (out of 111) in HUJI’s teaching survey. Moreover, he received the CCS Distinguished Paper award, the CBER Best Paper award, HUJI’s annual teaching award, the AIANI and Ze’ev Jabotinsky fellowships, and HUJI’s rector award for first-in-class MSc students.