Misha Volkhov

I am a second year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, BTL/LFCS, working on zero-knowledge proofs and private smart contracts, advised by Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss. I finished MPRI master's programme in 2019, and my bachelor's degree is from ITMO University (CT department, 2017). I have been a part of Serokell team since 2015 working on several blockchain-related projects, Cardano SL being one of the biggest. My area of dev expertise is mostly haskell ecosystem related (which I'm working with since 2015).

Some things I have done or participated in recently¹:

1. Linear Relations on QAP Polynomials, blog post 03/2021.
2. Snarky Ceremonies: M. Kohlweiss, M. Maller, J. Siim, M. Volkhov; Eprint 2021/219, 4th ZKProof workshop, Talk. To appear in Asiacrypt 2021.
3. Another Look at Extraction and Randomization of Groth's zk-SNARK: K. Baghery, M. Kohlweiss, J. Siim, M. Volkhov; Eprint 2020/811, Financial Cryptography 21, Talk.
4. Reasoning about Privacy in Smart Contracts, blog post 02/2020.
5. Techniques, Software, and Applications for Packed Partially Homomorphic Encryption. Master's thesis at INRIA Paris/MPRI. Preprint.

My contacts:

• Email: mikhail.volkhov АТ ed.ac.uk
• Github: https://github.com/volhovm
• GPG key at pgp.mit.edu and keys.openpgp.org: BC90 8DAE 8A4E 15C7 A0C1 E989 17A8 54CA 8237 09D7
• Public ssh key: ./id_rsa.pub
• My nickname is volhovm almost everywhere, including (informal) social media (e.g. [1]​, [2]​, [3]​).