What a ride Lorenzo! I am so proud of you and wish you all the best for the future 😀

We have three tenure-track openings on "Transforming Science with AI/ML” TU Wien , which are offered to the winners of the competitive @WWTF "Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators" grant (funding higher than an ERC Starting Grant). Candidates at the intersection

I have an account on BlueSky (@matteomaffei.bsky.social)! Follow me there and let's see if this time the transition to a different social network succeeds :)

It was a real pleasure to open the Fintech Week 2024 with a keynote on "AI and Cybersecurity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Many thanks to the organizers and to the panelists for the super interesting discussions! TU Wien CySec buff.ly/4fBokTx

I have an opening for several Ph.D. positions TU Wien. Topics of interest include formal methods for security (e.g., for crypto protocols and machine learning analysis), web security, and blockchains. Apply online at buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024

Congratulations to Lukas Aumayr, who received the Best Dissertation Award 2024 in the Faculty of Informatics TU Wien. I could summarize my statement with these words: "Lukas, you are an amazing researcher and an amazing person. It was a privilege to mentor you along this

Blink, our optimal light client for proof of work, has been accepted at Financial Crypto 2025 🥳 Made with love TU Wien Stanford University Common Prefix CDL-BOT eprint.iacr.org/2024/692 Zeta Avarikioti Lukas Aumayr Dionysis Zindros Giulia Scaffino

The Italian government pays Musk 1.5B EUR for top-level encryption and secure communication. First, I would be curious to know what “top-level encryption” means. Second, what about sovereignty? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Gadgets have arrived! TU Wien S&P TU Wien CySec

Thank you to Credito Padano BCC Italian Bank for inviting me to talk about Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and DeFi. It's great to see how banks and traditional finance is letting go of prejudices and stepping up to explore new currencies and technologies! S&P TU Wien Common Prefix

So nice to bring dogs to work 🥰 CySec TU Wien S&P TU Wien

After seeing multiple posts discussing the flaws of PhD supervisors, finally one representing the other side!

Vibrant discussions at the new AI & Security Competence Forum! Prof. Matteo Maffei Matteo Maffei joined experts Thomas Stubbings #CTS, Alexander Janda #KSÖ, Ralf Schneider Ralf Schneider Deutsche Telekom, and Johann Schlaghuber Siemens 🇦🇹📷#CyberSicherheit #CyberSecurity

Exciting news! Join us for a lecture by Jonathan Katz Jonathan Katz from Google at TU Wien! Don't miss the chance to attend "Round-Optimal Fully Secure Distributed Key Generation" on March 4, either in person or online.📌 Details here: cysec.wien/news/2025-03-0…

From concept to reality! After a year of working on the formalization and security of BitVM with S&P TU Wien and Common Prefix, it’s now being deployed by BOB and the BitVM/acc group. Excited to see this take shape!