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Vassilis Zikas is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech. He also holds courtesy appointments at the School of Computer Science of Georgia Tech and the Computer Science Department of Purdue University. Before his current appointment, he was an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Purdue University, where he established and led the Purdue Blockchain Lab. His main areas of interest are cryptography, computer security, blockchain technologies, distributed computing, and cryptocurrencies. He has extensive research experience in secure multi-party computation (MPC) with several high-profile results on the theory and practice of MPC. He also has the role of Chief Scientific Consultant for Sunday Group, Inc. In the past, he was an Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He was also a research fellow and area leader for multi-party computation at IOHK, Inc. He has held academic faculty, visiting, and senior researcher positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. He was also a senior research associate at the Cryptography and Information Security Group at ETH Zurich in a position supported by a career development grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is consistently on the program committees of the leading conferences in Cryptography, Security, and Distributed Computing, and is on the editorial board of the IACR Journal of Cryptology and the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.