Soubhik Deb
Hi! I am Soubhik (pronounced as Shaw-bik). Currently, I am the Head of R&D for AVS division at EigenLayer. My job involves R&D of novel distributed systems that can be built on top of EigenLayer and helping our partners in building and integrating their systems with EigenLayer.
Previously, I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, where I was advised by Sreeram Kannan. During my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to work on the full-stack of blockchain systems: networking layer, consensus layer, scaling layer and application layer, for enhancing the performance guarantees while establishing precise security thresholds and designing novel applications.
Before starting my Ph.D., I spent three amazing years as an industrial researcher at NEC Corporation, Japan, working on state-of-the-art signal processing modules for 5G technology. In a past life, I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2016 with a Dual Degree (Bachelors and Masters) in Electrical Engineering. For my Master's thesis, I worked with with Abhay Karandikar on Frugal 5G.
In my free time, I do powerlifting (PR: benchpress - 100 kgs, squats - 130 kgs, deadlift - 160 kgs), running 10k (PR: 43 mins 47 secs) and cycling.
News
| Aug, 2023 | Gave a talk on my work on Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains at KademliaCon at The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023. |
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| Aug, 2023 | Participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on emerging frontiers of Web3 infrastructure. |
| Aug, 2023 | Participated as a panelist in a panel discussion conducted by Polyhedra on the role of infrastructure for the future of blockchains. |
| Aug, 2023 | Conducted seminars on risk rubric on EigenLayer and AVS integration with EigenLayer at The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023. |
| Jul, 2023 | Was interviewed by Rolling Stones India on crypto and how India can take advantage of it. See the detailed article here. |
| May, 2023 | Graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle. |
| May, 2023 | Paper on Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus accepted at ACM CCS 2023! |
| Mar, 2023 | Gave a talk on EigenLayer and its applications at Cornell Tech. |
| Sept, 2022 | Gave a talk on our paper PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work at Protocol Labs Research Seminar. The long video is available here.. |
| June, 2022 | Gave a talk on Fair Ordering in Blockchains at Workshop on Blockchains and Networking at ACM Sigmetrics 2022. |
| May, 2022 | Order-Fair Consensus in the Permissionless Setting won the Best-Paper Award at ACM APKC 2022. |
| Oct, 2021 | Gave a talk on our paper PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work at ConsensusDays 21 organized by Protocol Labs. The long video is available here.. |
| May, 2021 | Gave a talk on our paper PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work at Cornell. |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Gave a talk on our paper PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021! The long video is available here. |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Preprint of our paper on Order-Fair Consensus in the Permissionless Setting is out! It will be great to hear your comments. |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Paper on PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, without the Work accepted at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021! |
| Aug 6, 2020 | Our paper on Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains was presented at PODC 2020. |
| May 4, 2020 | Paper on Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains accepted at PODC 2020! |
| Sep 25, 2019 | Started my Ph.D. in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle. Long road ahead! |