Scholar
Kushal Babel
Google Scholar ID: VQiIw6YAAAAJ
Cornell University, Category Labs
Citations & Impact
Citations
301
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Presented paper 'PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World' at SBC'24.
- 2. Paper 'Complete Knowledge (CK)' accepted to CCS'24.
- 3. Published preprint 'Mysticeti: Low-Latency DAG Consensus with Fast Commit Path' on ArXiv, 2023.
- 4. Published paper 'Lanturn: Measuring Economic Security of Smart Contracts Through Adaptive Learning' at ACM CCS 2023.
- 5. Published paper 'Clockwork Finance: Automated Analysis of Economic Security in Smart Contracts' at IEEE S&P 2023.
- 6. Published paper 'Charlotte: Reformulating Blockchains into a Web of Composable Attested Data Structures for Cross-Domain Applications' at ACM TOCS 2023.
- 7. Published paper 'Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access' at USENIX OSDI 2022.
Research Experience
- 1. Worked as a Quantitative Researcher and Low Latency C++ Engineer at a proprietary High Frequency Trading Firm in Mumbai and Singapore before joining Cornell.
- 2. Interned at Mysten Labs, working with George Danezis and the Systems Group on consensus research.
Education
- 1. PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech and IC3, advised by Prof. Ari Juels.
- 2. Undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Bombay, worked with Prof. Supratik Chakraborty and Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti.
Background
- Research interests include Distributed Systems, Blockchains, Security, Applied Cryptography, and Formal Verification.
