Bryan Alexander Ford
EPFL IC IINFCOM DEDIS
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Curriculum vitae
Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Shailesh Mishra, Ant Srikanth, Haoqian Zhang
Past EPFL PhD Students
Enis Ceyhun Alp (2024), Cristina Basescu (2023), Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias (2019), Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino (2025), Kirill Nikitin (2021), Pasindu Nivanthaka Tennage (2025)
Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector
Ludovic Barman (2021), Georgia Fragkouli (2022), David Froelicher (2021)
Courses
Decentralized systems engineering
CS-438
A decentralized system is one that works when no single party is in charge or fully trusted. This course teaches decentralized systems principles while guiding students through the engineering of their own decentralized system featuring messaging, file sharing, encryption, and blockchain concepts.
Technologies for democratic society
CS-234
This course will offer students a broad but hands-on introduction to technologies of human self-organization.