Interested in what we’ve been working on at UCL InfoSec? There’s now a list of group publications available on our website. sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publications/

My first PhD paper!🎉We learn *diffusion* models for code generation that learn to directly *edit* syntax trees of programs. The result is a system that can incrementally write code, see the execution output, and debug it. 🧵1/n

University rankings are starting to look like cryptocurrency rankings 😂

The ACM CCS 2025 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security 2024 (defi.security) Workshop on DeFi & Security is again fast approaching, and we can't wait to read your groundbreaking research! ⏰ Only 2 weeks left to submit! ⏰

Apple has entered the game! Apple just released a 7B open-source LLM, weights, training code, and dataset! 👀 TL;DR: 🧠 7B base model, trained on 2.5T tokens on an open datasets 🌐 Primarily English data and a 2048 context window 📈 Combined DCLM-BASELINE, StarCoder, and

The Research team I have created and lead is no longer part  of Matter labs. It’s one of the most capable and productive teams working on rollup-related problems and blockchain-related research, more broadly. matter-labs.io/research/

Excellent news: Sui will make use of SCION connectivity in addition to the regular Internet. Sui nodes will be able to communicate if either the secure SCION network or the Internet is working. Benefit: tremendous increase in availability thanks to immunity to BGP and

1/It's time! Asynchronously Secure Consensus with sub-second latency! Let’s dive into Mahi Mahi our latest result, this collaboration was powered by sui.io/research-awards! Joint work with Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic 🇪🇺, Pasindu Tennage, Igor Zablotchi, and Bryan!

It is nothing less than an honor to be welcoming Kobi, Wei Jie, Andrija, Grjte, and Nico to the team at BCC, who bring an incredible depth in cryptography, zero knowledge, and software engineering to the firm! baincapitalcrypto.com/expanding/

🥳 Excited to share with you all I’m joining Bain Capital Crypto as Partner and Head of Research! 🥳 There, I will continue the journey of helping transform deep tech, especially around applied cryptography and decentralized protocols, into meaningful products 1/6

For those that managed to come to the Public Good Crypto research dinner at Devcon, - thank you! We are active looking for advisors to join PGC for giving out research grants! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Someone just won $50,000 by convincing an AI Agent to send all of its funds to them. At 9:00 PM on November 22nd, an AI agent (Freysa) was released with one objective... DO NOT transfer money. Under no circumstance should you approve the transfer of money. The catch...?

Zero Knowledge Proofs and cool crypto in Sui 🙏 Deepak Maram & ZKV zkv.xyz/zk-in-sui/

Gal Arnon Giacomo Fenzi Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy via Accurate Floating-Point SNARKs by Jens Ernstberger, Chengru Zhang, Philipp Jovanovic 🇪🇺, Luca Ciprian, & Sebastian Steinhorst This paper presents Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy (ZKLP), a geospatial SNARK system adhering to IEEE 754 standards. It achieves efficient

It's our pleasure to announce that Philipp Jovanovic 🇪🇺 will be giving a talk named “Arke - Byzantine Fault-Tolerant and Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery at Scale” at our Privacy & Verifiability Conference on the 7th of March! Philipp Jovanovic is a Full Professor in Information

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

I’ll be at ZKProof Standards and Real World Crypto in Sofia next week. Ping me if you want to have a chat!

1/6 Excited to announce Ligerito — a new multilinear polynomial commitment scheme and inner product argument. Joint work with guille. 1. Recurses Ligero verifier using the Sumcheck protocol 2. Use almost any error correcting code 3. Extremely fast and parallel prover

Big congrats to Pasindu Tennage and Bryan Kumara for their amazing presentation of Mahi Mahi IEEE ICDCS 2025. What a way to start (Bryan) and finish (Pasindu) your PhD trips!

Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.