Information Security and Cryptography Research Group

Martin Hirt

Martin Hirt

Senior Researcher

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Postal address:
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zürich, CAB H 19.1
Universitätstrasse 6
CH – 8092 Zürich

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Personal Details

  • Born 1970 in Biel, Switzerland
  • Languages: German, French, English

Education

  • Matura Type C (natural sciences), 1989
  • M.Sc., ETH Zurich, 1995
  • Educational Sciences, ETH Zurich, 1995
  • Dr. sc. techn. (with honors), ETH Zurich, 2001

Research Directions

  • Asynchronous networks
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Efficiency improvements (both asymptotic and concrete)
  • Generalized adversary models
  • Electronic voting

Conference Committees

  • TCC 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016-B (co-chair), 2018
  • ITC 2021
  • Crypto 2007
  • Eurocrypt 2001, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018
  • Africacrypt 2009, 2011
  • Esorics 2002
  • PKC 2005, 2011
  • RSA CT 2002, 2004, 2006
  • SCN 2010, 2012

Awards

  • Golden Owl Teaching Award, 2017
  • TCC Test of Time Award, 2021

Latest Publications complete list

Multi-Threshold Asynchronous Reliable Broadcast and Consensus

Martin Hirt, Ard Kastrati, and Chen-Da Liu Zhang
International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems — OPODIS 2020, Dec 2020.

Brief Announcement: Multi-Threshold Asynchronous Reliable Broadcast and Consensus

Martin Hirt, Ard Kastrati, and Chen-Da Liu Zhang
International Symposium on Distributed Computing — DISC 2020, Oct 2020.

From Partial to Global Asynchronous Reliable Broadcast

Diana Ghinea, Martin Hirt, and Chen-Da Liu Zhang
International Symposium on Distributed Computing — DISC 2020, Oct 2020.