Financial Cryptography Final call for papers FC26 fc26.ifca.ai/cfp.html Submission deadline: 20 September 2025 Conference: 2–6 March 2026 St. Kitts Marriott Resort

We had academic speakers like @ccanonne.github.io @vellosoraptor.bsky.social @jlizier.bsky.social , Anusha Withana and Zhiyong Wang

Our School has just organised the annual #ResearchShowcase, where our academics, PhD, and Master's (by research) students presented their research with an interdisciplinary focus. 🎉🎉🎉

🎉 Clément and Yun's paper "Local Computation Algorithms for Knapsack: impossibility results, and how to avoid them" is accepted at RANDOM 2025! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01543 🔗More about RANDOM: randomconference.com 👤 @ccanonne.github.io #algorithms #sublinearalgorithms #distributedalgorithms

Applications are now open for our International Visitor Program, open to #mathematicians to visit Aus 🐨 between July '26-'June 27, or March '26-June -27 (Aus/NZ citizens) 📅 Apply by Aug 1, info: mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/internationa... Please share with your networks 🔁 #MathSky

Details, guidelines, and eligibility requirements: 🔗 Women in Engineering Scholarship: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... 🔗 Women in Engineering Excellence: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... Please spread the word! #WomenInEngineering #WomenInSTEM #WomenInComputerScience #USyd

📢 The Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is offering over $1.5M in scholarships to support female domestic undergraduate students starting in 2026. Applications will open on July 1, close on Sep 30. For more details, see links in reply below. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering #WomenInCS @sydney.edu.au

Fairness in the Wild: Secure Atomic Swap with External Incentives (Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) ia.cr/2025/1086

Crypto Valley Conference 2025 is all set to happen tomorrow June 6 in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The program can be found here: cryptovalleyconference.com/docs/agenda_cv… My co-chair ChenDa has led from the front and organizing the event in person#CVCBTB#Bitcoini#IEEEEE

🚨🚨📣 We now have a Sydney Blockchain Centre led by @jiangshanyu.github.io . It consists of experts from our School on various topics ranging from #distributed #computing, #consensus, #formalverification, to #security and #cryptography. Check out: usyd-desci.github.io/index.html #Blockchain #USyd

www.linkedin.com/posts/mfesgi... PhD and postdoc opportunities in post quantum cryptography at Monash University. Esgin is an amazing researcher. Do apply if you are interested.

A first-of-its-kind research and development company has been launched by the @sydney.edu.au quantum technology team that worked closely with Microsoft Quantum for the best part of a decade. Emergence Quantum is delivering quantum technology’s “missing link”.

InstaRand: Instantly Available and Instantly Verifiable On-chain Randomness (Jacob Gorman, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Pratyay Mukherjee, Pratik Sarkar, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) ia.cr/2025/896

We welcomed a merry band of cryptographers to the Institute this week! Check out their boot camp, now underway — with a focus on obfuscation, proof systems, and secure computation. Register to view the livestream or gain early access to recordings. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/cr...

Verifiable randomness as a service on blockchains! #Randomness #Randomness #Everywhere

Wonderful event from our school to honor the top achieving students. This is in addition to the university level recognition.

The photos above are, of course, only a small sample of the many students we celebrated last week! To paraphrase, this BlueSky margin is too narrow to contain our so-many high-achieving students!

Celebrating our incredible #USyd #ComputerScience students 🎓 during the School of CS' Award Ceremony last Thursday! A truly inspiring cohort: on behalf of the School, lecturers, and professional staff, congratulations! @sydney.edu.au

Our HCI team received *five* awards at #CHI'25! All of these received best paper honourable mention awards, which are awarded to the top 5% of submissions. #USyd @sydney.edu.au showed up strong at CHI 2025! 🎉🎉🎉

The paper can be found here: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... The award list: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/awa...

Congrats to the team of authors from @sydneycompsci.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au for this amazing recognition!

🎉🎉🎉 The paper also won "Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2025". The award recognises this work for advancing the understanding of how people can effectively control supernumerary (extra) arms. #Award #CHI'25 Award list: chi2025.acm.org/best-paper-a...

I will be talking about how we can achieve fairness in this unfair world using cryptography! pintofscience.com.au/event/what's... #Pint25 Tickets are getting sold fast. Don't miss out! Excited for this event as it is my first time.

This is joint work with Lucjan Hanzlik (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Aniket Kate (Purdue University/Supra Research), Easwar Vivek Mangipudi (Supra Research), and Pratyay Mukherjee (Supra Research).

🎉 Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan's paper "VITARIT: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends" has been accepted at S&P 2025! Check it out: eprint.iacr.org/2025/174 🔗More about IEEE S&P 2025: sp2025.ieee-security.org 👤@aravind16coiner.bsky.social #Privacy #Blockchain #Threshold #Service

How do you pay threshold services using efficient Blockchain based payment mechanisms? Next week Easwar will talk about Vitarit at IEEE SP 2025 in SF, USA.

🎉 Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan's paper "PASSO: Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions" has been accepted at #Eurocrypt2025! Check it out: eprint.iacr.org/2025/349 🔗More about Eurocrypt: eurocrypt.iacr.org/2025/ 👤@aravind16coiner.bsky.social #Randomness #PASSO #MPC

This is joint work with Chen-Da Liu-Zhang (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Web3 Foundation), Elisaweta Masserova (CMU), João Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa) and Pratik Soni (University of Utah).

Happening now at Eurocrypt in Madrid. A simpler formulation of the speak only once model of MPC.

Must be amazing!

Follow @sydneycompsci.bsky.social for exciting updates on publications, hiring, grants, awards, etc. Of members from University of Sydney's School of Computer Science. #USyd @sydney.edu.au @ccanonne.github.io

🎉 Liyi Zhou’s paper "Blockchain Amplification Attack" has been accepted at #SIGMETRICS25! Check it out here at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 👤 @lzhou1110.bsky.social 🔗 More about SIGMETRICS'25: www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics20... #Research #Security

🎉 Our PhD student Zijin Huang's paper "Faster Fréchet Distance under Transformations" has been accepted at #ICALP2025! Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12814 🔗 More about ICALP'25: conferences.au.dk/icalp2025 #Research #Theory #Algorithms #ComputationalGeometry #TCSSky

For more information, see Liyi's website and profile: 👤 @lzhou1110.bsky.social 🔗 lzhou1110.github.io

📢 Interested in doing a #PhD in #security at #USydCompSci? Liyi Zhou is looking for two self-motivated students with a strong foundation in #ComputerScience and ideally some prior #research or security background. Experience in (1) #blockchain/#DeFi or (2) AI for security is optional but a big plus.

To hear all about the work @iclr-conf.bsky.social, Poster: 25.04 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm Talk: 27.04 at 3:30 pm in the VerifAI workshop verifai-workshop.github.io/schedule/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.00537 Looking forward to meeting and discussing with fellow researchers in Singapore! 🙂 [6/6]

Proud of you! #ICLR2025

"The Australian Academy of Science is excited to announce the establishment of a Global Talent Attraction Program [...] to rapidly recruit to Australia leading US scientists and Australians returning home." 🇦🇺 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

The fairness workshop at #FC2025 comes to a close. It was high intensity fairness focused talks that has left us all pondering over interesting notions of fairness and new open problems. Thanks to the wonderful speakers and 40+ attendees for making it a success!

The final talk: Robert McLaughlin from UCSB is talking about CLVR ordering of transactions on AMMs #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

Here is Lisa from CMU talking g about Mev opportunities in the Blockchain ecosystem #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

Incentive driven attacks on Cryptographic protocols can be tackled says Juan. #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

Juan Garay talking about real ideal paradigm for rational protocols. Looks like the moment from Gladiator "Are you not entertained?" #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

Sophia says "yes and no" when asked can fake hiding be achieved in deniable secret sharing #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

We have the third talk by Sophia from Aarhus University. She is speaking about Deniable secret sharing #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

Proportional reward splitting from Lukas performs better than fruitchains #Fairness #FC2025

Lukas Aumayr talking about reward fairness at the #Fairness #Workshop #FC2025

The fairness workshop is happening now at FC! Vincent Gramoli from @sydneycompsci.bsky.social #USyd is talking about fairness in Redbelly

A CMU reunion with ChenDa and Lisa at FC, Miyakojima, Okinawa.