Dr. Nibesh Shrestha

Applied Researcher

PhD in Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
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About

Dr. Nibesh is an applied researcher at Supra with a general interest in the design of efficient protocols for Byzantine fault tolerant distributed consensus, blockchains, random beacons, distributed key generation, etc. He recently completed my PhD in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in July 2023, under the guidance of Prof. Kartik Nayak.

Interests and expertise

His primary research focus lies in the realm of secure distributed computing. Over the years, he has dedicated my efforts to designing efficient Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed consensus protocols, as well as delving into topics such as randomness beacons and distributed key generation.

Commentary

I've been actively engaged in designing efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols like Moonshot at Supra. Additionally, I'm delving into enhancing decentralized oracles and refining the data dissemination layer for consensus. Another area of focus is optimizing the latency of DAG-based BFT protocols and investigating efficient Distributed Key Generation (DKG) protocols.

Selected research publications

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2024

SUPRATECH | Whitepaper

Sailfish: Towards Improving the Latency of DAG-based BFT

with Dr. Aniket Kate, Rohan Shrothrium and Kartik Nayak • EEE S&P 2025

Whitepaper

Synchronous Distributed Key Generation without Broadcasts

with Adithya Bhat, Dr. Aniket Kate, Kartik Nayak • IACR Communications in Cryptology, 2024

2023

SUPRATECH | Whitepaper

Moonshot: Optimizing Chain-Based Rotating Leader BFT via Optimistic Proposals

with Isaac Doidge, Dr. Raghavendra Ramesh, Dr. Nibesh Shrestha & Joshua D. Tobkin • DSN 2024

Communication and Round Efficient Parallel Broadcast Protocols

with Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak • TCC 2022

2022

OptRand: Optimistically Responsive Reconfigurable Distributed Randomness

with Adithya Bhat, Dr. Aniket Kate, Kartik Nayak • NDSS 2023

2021

RandPiper – Reconfiguration-Friendly Random Beacons with Quadratic Communication

with Dr. Aniket Kate, Adithya Bhat, Zhongtang Luo and Kartik Nayak • CCS 2021

Optimal Good-Case Latency for Rotating Leader Synchronous BFT

with Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak • OPODIS 2021

2020

On the Optimality of Optimistic Responsiveness

with Ittai Abraham, Ling Ren, Kartik Nayak • CCS 2020

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