Committees

General Chair

• Andy Lewis-Pye, London School of Economics, UK

Program Chairs

• Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Maria Kyropoulou, University of Essex, UK

Program Committee

• Lukas Aumayr, University of Edinburgh & Common Prefix
• Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck
• Jing Chen, Tsinghua University
• Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
• Rachid ELAZOUZI, Avignon University, Avignon, France
• Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira, University of Virginia
• Aris Filos-Ratsikas, University of Edinburgh
• Luciano Freitas, Nomadic Labs
• Robin Fritsch, Offchain Labs
• Arthur Gervais, UCL
• Giacomo Giuliari, Mysten Labs
• Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub
• Ethan Heilman, Cloudflare
• Lioba Heimbach, Category Labs
• Aljosha Judmayer, University of Vienna
• Ari Juels, Cornell Tech and IC3
• Aniket Kate, Purdue University / Supra Research
• Elias Koutsoupias, University of Oxford
• Stefanos Leonardos, King's College London
• Jiasun Li, GMU
• Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Akaki Mamageishvili, Offchain Labs
• Vangelis Markakis, Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) and Input Output Global (IOG)
• Francisco Marmolejo-Cossio, Boston College
• Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation
• Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia / Paradigm/ Uniswap Labs
• Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, MPI-SP
• Joachim Neu, a16z Crypto Research
• Paolo Penna, IOG
• Georgios Piliouras, Google DeepMind & SUTD
• Kaihua Qin, University of Warwick
• Geoffrey Ramseyer, Stellar Development Foundation
• Christian Rechberger, TU Graz and TACEO
• Pierre-Louis Roman, Independent
• Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University & a16z crypto
• Arnab Roy, Mysten Labs
• Qihong Ruan, Agentic Sciences, San Francisco
• Pietro Saggese, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
• Fahad Saleh, University of Florida
• Clara Shikhelman, Chaincode Labs
• Parwat Singh Anjana, Supra.com
• Alberto Sonnino, Mysten Labs and University College London (UCL)
• Nimrod Talmon, Ben-Gurion University, Input Output
• Qiang Tang, The University of Sydney
• Claudio J. Tessone, Professor of Blockchain & DLT, UZH Blockchain Center, University of Zurich
• Florian Tschorsch, TU Dresden
• Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA LIST, Paris-Saclay University
• Marie Vasek, University College London
• Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto
• Kanye Ye Wang, University of Macau
• Ke Wu, University of Michigan
• Mengqian Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
• Dionysis Zindros, Common Prefix

Steering Committee

• Ittai Abraham (co-chair), Intel
• Dan Boneh, Stanford University
• Christian Cachin, University of Bern
• Ittay Eyal (co-chair), Technion
• Giulia Fanti, CMU
• Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
• Satoshi Nakamoto (pending confirmation)
• Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University
• Eli Ben Sasson, Technion
• Emin Gun Sirer (co-chair), Cornell University
• Rainer Böhme ('24 PC chair), University of Innsbruck
• Lucianna Kiffer ('24 PC chair), IMDEA Networks
• Nicolas Christin ('25 PC chair), Carnegie Mellon University
• Zeta Avarikioti ('25 PC chair), TU Wien and Common Prefix
• Aggelos Kiayias ('26 PC chair), University of Edinburgh
• Maria Kyropoulou ('26 PC chair), University of Essex

The steering committee consists of up to 16 members. Up to 6 of them are the program chair(s) of the next AFT conference, and the program chair(s) of the two most recent AFT conferences that have taken place - up to two members per edition, even if there were more PC-chairs due to exigent circumstances. PC-Chair Membership in the steering committee changes after every AFT conference.

Since 2025, the positions held by the 9 members of the inaugural steering committee are being determined by an election that takes place annually, usually at the AFT conference, among the attendees of the conference. Each year, three positions are up for election, in an initial order that has been determined by the committee. The term of each elected member is 3 years. Re-election is permitted. The steering committee elects among itself a chair or multiple co-chairs every year.