• Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Associate Director, Global Cyber Research Institute
Juan Garay

Research Interests

    • Cryptography and information security
    • Cryptographic protocols and schemes
    • Secure multiparty computation
    • Cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols
    • Cryptography and game theory
    • Network security
    • Distributed computing
    • Consensus problems
    • Algorithms

Awards & Honors

  • IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Fellow – 2018

Selected Publications

  • Juan A. Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Nikos Leonardos: "The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications." J. ACM 71(4): 25:1-25:49 (2024). (Preliminary version in EUROCRYPT 2015.)
  • Juan A. Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Rafail M. Ostrovsky, Giorgos Panagiotakos, Vassilis Zikas: "Resource-Restricted Cryptography: Revisiting MPC Bounds in the Proof-of-Work Era." EUROCRYPT (2) 2020: 129-158
  • Juan A. Garay, Jonathan Katz, Ueli Maurer, Björn Tackmann, Vassilis Zikas: "Rational Protocol Design: Cryptography against Incentive-Driven Adversaries." FOCS 2013: 648-657
  • Reza Curtmola, Juan A. Garay, Seny Kamara, Rafail Ostrovsky: "Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions." J. Comput. Secur. 19(5): 895-934 (2011). (Preliminary version in ACM CCS 2006.)
  • Juan A. Garay, Yoram Moses: "Fully Polynomial Byzantine Agreement for n Greater Than 3t Processors in t + 1 Rounds." SIAM J. Comput. 27(1): 247-290 (1998). (Preliminary version in STOC 1993.)