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General Information
Full Name | Yann Vonlanthen |
Languages | English, German, French |
Education
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2021-
PhD in Computer Science
ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
- Supervised by Roger Wattenhofer at the Distributed Computing Group.
- Head Teaching Assistant of the Distributed Systems Lecture.
- Supervision of Bachelor and Master theses.
- Other teaching roles include giving lectures (Eventual Consistency & Bitcoin, Distributed Storage), being a teaching assistant in other lectures offered by our group, as well as conducting, writing, and grading of exams.
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2021
Masters Degree in Communication Systems
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Reasearch Assistant in Rachid Guerraoui's Distributed Computing Lab.
- Teaching Assistant for Computer Networks and Circuits and Systems II.
- Team Lead at the EPFL Rocket Team 2020.
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2018
Exchange Year
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Teaching Assistant for the Scala Center's Functional Programming Courses on Coursera.
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2018
Bachelors Degree in Communication Systems
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Experience
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2024
Research Internship
Chainlink Labs
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2022
Research Internship
ConsensusLab, Protocol Labs
- Worked on a multi-threaded WASM virtual machine for Filecoin.
- Presentation at ConsensusLab Summit in Lisbon.
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2020
Machine Learning Internship
UPC, Zurich, Switzerland
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2018
Research Internship
University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Honors and Awards
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2024
- Best Paper Award at Middleware'24
- Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty
- Ethereum Foundation Research Grant (30'000\$)
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2023
- Co-recipient of a SUI Academic Research Award (25'000\$)
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2022
- Pre-Nomination for Lopez-Loretta Prize
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2018
- EPFL Exellence Fellowship (10'000 CHF)
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2017
- EPFL Exchange Scholarship (2'000 CHF)
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2014
- University of Fribourg Best Matura Paper Award
Professional Services
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Program Committee
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Artifacts Evaluation Committee
- ACM CCS (2024)
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External or Invited Reviewer
- IEEE S&P (2025), AFT (2024), PODC (2024, 2023), SIGMETRICS (2024), MOBICOM (2023), OSDI (2023), ConsensusDay (2022), EuroSys (2022), FC (2022)