Research Interests
- Economics and security of blockchains
Positions
| 02/2023 – 03/2023 | Visiting Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria, funded by the Austria Israel Academic Network Innsbruck and Land Tirol |
| since 2019 | Doctoral Student, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel, funded by the Ze’ev Jabotinsky Fellowship given by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel |
Education
| 2016 – 2018 | M.Sc. in Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel |
| 2013 – 2016 | B.Sc., Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel |
Publications
- Gafni, Y. and Yaish, A. Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners. In The 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society, 2022. [Preprint]
- Yaish, A., Stern, G., and Zohar, A. Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum. In CESC ’22, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1020, 2022. [Preprint] [Video]
- Yaish, A., Tochner, S., and Zohar, A. Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. EC ’22, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 65–88. [Publisher] [Video]
- Yaish, A. and Zohar, A. Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying? In CESC ’22, 2020. [Preprint] [Video]
Awards
- The Hebrew University’s award for excellence in teaching (2021)
- The Hebrew University’s Rector award (2018)
- The Hebrew University’s Dean prize (2018)
- The “Amirim science” scholarship for outstanding students (2013)