Vero Estrada-Galiñanes
vero.estrada@epfl.ch +41 21 693 13 72 https://veroestrada.info
Citizenship: Argentine-Espagnole
Fields of expertise
Decentralized systems, resilient data storage networks, coding algorithms for reliability, participatory systems, and incentives
Biography
Vero Estrada has been a Scientist at the Decentralized and Distributed Systems (DEDIS) lab, EPFL, since August 2021. Before her current position, she was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger (Norway). She got a Ph.D. thesis from the University of Neuchâtel and has been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the University of Tokyo (Japan), the University of California Santa Cruz (U.S.A.), and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She received the Japanese MEXT scholarship and the SNSF Mobility Fellowship. Her professional career includes more than a decade of experience built in the private energy sector and the civil service. She was hired through a merit-based system for developing and managing Argentina’s national vessel monitoring system to encourage and support sustainable fisheries.Current work
Vero Estrada's current projects include decentralized and distributed systems, secure storage and communication, technologies for digital democracy, and cross-disciplinary problems to empower humans in a digital society.Education
PhD
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2017
Master in Arts and Science, Applied Computer Science
University of Tokyo, Japan
2011
Specialist in Cryptography and Information Security
Higher Education Army Institute, Argentina
2005
Electronics Engineering Bachelor and Master degree
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
Publications
Infoscience publications
Altruism, reciprocity, and tokens to reward forwarding data: Is that fair?
2024-05-29. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Dublin, Ireland, May 27-31, 2024.Distributed Systems - An introduction
2024-05-04.Breaking Blockchain Rationality with Out-of-Band Collusion
2024-01-01. 8th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting (Voting) / 4th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) / 3rd Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / 7th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC), Bol, CROATIA, MAY 05, 2023. p. 489-501. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-48806-1_31.Data corruption in plausible deniable storage: challenges and potential solutions
2023-07-04Workload characterization in decentralized networks
2023-07-04QuePaxa: Escaping the Tyranny of Timeouts in Consensus
2023-01-01. 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Koblenz, GERMANY, OCT 23-26, 2023. p. 281-+. DOI : 10.1145/3600006.3613150.Limiting Lamport Exposure to Distant Failures in Globally-Managed Distributed Systems
2022-07-15Flash Freezing Flash Boys: Countering Blockchain Front-Running
2022-07-10. Workshop on Decentralized Internet, Networks, Protocols, and Systems (DINPS), Bologna, ITALY, Jul 10, 2022. p. 90-95. DOI : 10.1109/ICDCSW56584.2022.00026.TRIP: Trustless Coercion-Resistant In-Person Voter Registration
2022-02-14Fair Incentivization of Bandwidth Sharing in Decentralized Storage Networks
2022-01-01. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, ITALY, Jul 10-13, 2022. p. 39-44. DOI : 10.1109/ICDCSW56584.2022.00017.Snarl: Entangled Merkle Trees for Improved File Availability and Storage Utilization
2021-12-02. 22nd International Middleware Conference (Middleware '21), Quebec, Canada, Decembre 6-10, 2021. p. 236-247. DOI : 10.1145/3464298.3493397.Future of data sovereignty (panelist)
MyData 2020 Conference, December 10, 2020.[Invited Talk] Building a Disaster-resilient Storage Layer for Next Generation Networks: The Role of Redundancy
Technical Committee on Network Systems Workshop, Nagoya, Japan.Open Humans: A platform for participant-centered research and personal data exploration
GigaScience. 2019. DOI : 10.1093/gigascience/giz076.Alpha Entanglement Codes: Practical Erasure Codes to Archive Data in Unreliable Environments
2018. 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). p. 183-194. DOI : 10.1109/DSN.2018.00030.Practical erasure codes for storage systems: The study of entanglement codes, an approach that propagates redundancy to increase reliability and performance
University of Neuchâtel, 2017.Teaching & PhD
Semester projects
If you are a bachelor's or master's student at EPFL interested in learning about decentralized storage networks, check the semester projects:- Workload characterization in decentralized networks
- Reliable decentralized storage
LINK: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/dedis/student-projects/