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Benjamin Y. Chan

Email: byc a t cs.cornell.edu

Bio

I am a fourth year PhD student at Cornell and Cornell Tech working on distributed algorithms and cryptography, co-advised by Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi.

Previously, I spent time as an engineer at Algorand implementing and testing consensus protocols, and before that I did my B.S. and M.Eng at MIT.

Manuscripts

2023

  1. Simplex Consensus: A Simple and Fast Consensus Protocol
    Benjamin Chan and Rafael Pass
    Manuscript. [eprint/pdf] [website]

Publications

2022

  1. Universal Reductions: Reductions Relative to Stateful Oracles
    Benjamin Chan, Cody Freitag, and Rafael Pass
    TCC 2022 [eprint/pdf] [slides]
  2. Revisiting the Power of Non-Equivocation in Distributed Protocols
    Naama Ben-David, Benjamin Chan, and Elaine Shi
    PODC 2022 [pdf] [slides]

2020

  1. Streamlet: Textbook Streamlined Blockchains
    Benjamin Chan and Elaine Shi
    AFT 2020 [eprint/pdf] [blog-post] [slides] [talk at SBC 2020]
    this protocol is taught as an intro consensus protocol in various distributed systems and blockchain classes, including at: cmu (1, 2), stanford (1, 2), uiuc (1), princeton (1), and more

Teaching

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