James Austgen

james@cs.cornell.edu

I am a PhD Student in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Ari Juels. My research interests include blockchain applications and distributed systems.

Selected Publications

Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization
Andrés Fábrega, Amy Zhao, Jay Yu, James Austgen, Sarah Allen, Kushal Babel, Mahimna Kelkar, Ari Juels
USENIX 2025
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/fabrega-entropy
Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar, Dani Vilardell, Sarah Allen, Kushal Babel, Jay Yu, Ari Juels
IEEE S&P 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02634
DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs
James Austgen*, Andrés Fábrega*, Sarah Allen, Kushal Babel, Mahimna Kelkar, Ari Juels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03530
Complete Knowledge: Preventing Encumbrance of Cryptographic Secrets
Mahimna Kelkar*, Kushal Babel*, Philip Daian*, James Austgen, Vitalik Buterin, Ari Juels
ACM CCS 2024
https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/044
(*equal contribution)