Giacomo Fenzi
PhD student at EPFL specializing in coding theory and cryptography, involved in research and judging related to proximity gap conjectures and hash-based SNARK security.
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Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 1min
STIR with Gal Arnon & Giacomo Fenzi
Ph.D students Gal Arnon & Giacomo Fenzi discuss their research on 'STIR', a system replacing FRI with optimizations. They explore the history of FRI, proximity testing, proof systems, polynomial folding, coding theory, and advancements in protocols and soundness analysis.
Mar 4, 2026 • 37min
lean Ethereum Part 3: Security of PQ SNARKs and an update about the Proximity Prize
Antonio Sanso, cryptography researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, and Giacomo Fenzi, EPFL PhD in coding theory, discuss post-quantum SNARK security. They cover hash-based proof systems, LeanVM’s multilinear sumcheck design, and the $1M Proximity Prize spurring work on proximity gaps, correlated agreement, and list-decoding. They also talk about recent papers shifting some guarantees from conjectural to computational security.
