student projects

I always enjoy coming up with new student projects and seeing them through. Check out our group's website for available student projects or contact me with your own ideas.

Project reports can be found on my university webpage.

on-going

  1. master thesis
    Chaos Testing Blockchain Networks: Simulating Real-World Failures
    Ludovic Burnier
    Co-supervised with Hubert Ritzdorf
  2. bachelor thesis
    Designing Recommender Systems for Politics
    Niklas Pohl
    Co-supervised with Frédéric Berdoz

2024

  1. master thesis
    Deep-dive into Ethereum Peer Discovery
    Jérôme Landtwing
    Co-supervised with Lucianna Kiffer
  2. master thesis
    Byzantine Fuzzing
    Marc Widmer
    Co-supervised with Matej Pavlovic
  3. master thesis
    Recommender Systems for Politics
    Dustin Brunner
    Co-supervised with Frédéric Berdoz
  4. master thesis
    State Replication on Demand
    Anton Paromanov
    Co-supervised with Quentin Kniep
  5. master thesis
    Characterization of the Ethereum Workload
    Patrick Züst
    Co-supervised with Quentin Kniep and Lioba Heimbach

2023

  1. bachelor thesis
    Airdrop Mechanisms and Their Sybil Resistance
    Noe Marty
    Co-supervised with Lioba Heimbach
  2. master thesis
    Attacking the Network Layer of Ethereum
    Juan Villacis
    Co-supervised with Lucianna Kiffer
  3. semester thesis
    Attacks on DAOs
    Rainer Feichtinger
    Co-supervised with Lioba Heimbach and Robin Fritsch
  4. group project
    Building Practical Distributed Algorithms
    Catherine Schmit Andrea Jiang
    Co-supervised with Matej Pavlovic
  5. group project
    Building Practical Longest Chain Protocols
    Marc Widmer
    Co-supervised with Matej Pavlovic
  6. bachelor thesis
    Post Merge Cryptocurrencies
    Sophia Skorik
    Co-supervised with Lucianna Kiffer
  7. internship
    Enabling Interactions Between Encointer Local Communities
    E. Delacour
    Co-supervised with Alain Benzikofer
  8. master thesis
    Analyzing the Use and Potential of Transaction Access Lists in Ethereum
    Patrick Züst
    Co-supervised with Quentin Kniep and Lioba Heimbach

2022

  1. master thesis
    Dangers of Voting Advice Applications in Swiss Politics
    Gina Stoffel
    Co-supervised with Judith Beestermöller
  2. master thesis
    Fast Internet Computer Consensus
    Massimo Albarello
    Co-supervised with Jakub Sliwinski
  3. master thesis
    Understanding Peer Discovery in ETH 2.0
    Samuel Kaeser
    Co-supervised with Lucianna Kiffer
  4. semester thesis
    Agent-Based Simulation of Community Currencies with Basic Income
    Damla Welti
    Co-supervised with Alain Benzikofer
  5. master thesis
    Do Politicians Keep Their Election Campaign Position?
    Roger Germann
  6. master thesis
    Machine Learning vs. Swiss Politics
    Douglas Orsini-Rosenberg
    Co-supervised with Robin Fritsch
  7. bachelor thesis
    More Democracy on the Blockchain
    Rainer Feichtinger
    Co-supervised with Robin Fritsch
  8. bachelor thesis
    Optimizing Swiss Politics
    Leon Plath
    Co-supervised Judith Beestermöller
  9. master thesis
    GitDAO - Blockchain Primitives for Trustless Open Source
    Yves Zumbach
  10. bachelor thesis
    Mining and Visualizing Ethereum
    Felix Schoellen
    Co-supervised with Lioba Heimbach

2021