Dr Michal Krol
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Michał Król is a lecturer at City, University of London where he teaches Information Security Fundamentals and Cryptography. He did his PhD in networking at the University Grenoble Alpes in France and spent several years as a research associate at University College London, University of California, Los Angeles and UCLouvain in Belgium. His research research interest include blockchains, distributed systems and privacy-preserving communication.
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Conference papers and proceedings (29)
- Kastantin, A., Balduf, L., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Scheuermann, B., Duda, A.... Korczyński, M. Netting Phish in the IPFS Ocean: Real-Time Monitoring and Characterization of Decentralized Phishing Campaigns. WWW '26: The ACM Web Conference 2026.doi:10.1145/3774904.3792188
- Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Ascigil, O., Tyson, G., Castro, I., Scheuermann, B.... Król, M. Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky. WWW '26: The ACM Web Conference 2026.doi:10.1145/3774904.3792106
- Pigaglio, M., Ascigil, O., Król, M., Lange, F., Peeroo, K., Rene, S.... Rivière, E. PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking Allowing Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds. MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference.doi:10.1145/3721462.3770769
- Yang, W., Ye, Q., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Król, M.... Tyson, G. Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking. .doi:10.1145/3771565
- Balduf, L., Sokoto, S., Ascigil, O., Tyson, G., Scheuermann, B., Korczyński, M.... Król, M. Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky. IMC '24: ACM Internet Measurement Conference.doi:10.1145/3646547.3688407
- Yazdaninejad, H., Rajarajan, M. and Krol, M. (2024). A Blockchain-enabled and Transparent Evaluation of ML Models in the Decentralised Marketplace. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain) 19-22 August.doi:10.1109/blockchain62396.2024.00067
- Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Trautwein, D., Wei, Y., Tyson, G., Castro, I.... Krol, M. (2024). Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System. USENIX Security Symposium 14-16 August, Philadelphia, USA.
- Król, M., Ascigil, O., Rene, S., Sonnino, A., Pigaglio, M., Sadre, R.... Rivière, E. (2024). DISC-NG: Robust Service Discovery in the Ethereum Global Network. 2024 IEEE 9th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 8-12 July.doi:10.1109/eurosp60621.2024.00019
- Sridhar, S., Ascigil, O., Keizer, N., Genon, F., Pierre, S., Psaras, Y.... Król, M. Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.doi:10.14722/ndss.2024.23153
- Sokoto, S., Król, M., Stankovic, V. and Rivière, E. Next-Generation Distributed Hash Tables. CoNEXT 2023: The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies.doi:10.1145/3630202.3630234
- Nosyk, Y., Korczyński, M., Gañán, C.H., Król, M., Lone, Q. and Duda, A. (2023). Don’t Get Hijacked: Prevalence, Mitigation, and Impact of Non-Secure DNS Dynamic Updates. 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) 1-3 November.doi:10.1109/trustcom60117.2023.00202
- Balduf, L., Korczyński, M., Ascigil, O., Keizer, N.V., Pavlou, G., Scheuermann, B.... Król, M. The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS. IMC '23: ACM Internet Measurement Conference.doi:10.1145/3618257.3624797
- Pigaglio, M., Król, M. and Riviére, E. (2023). Exploring Locality in Ethereum Transactions. 2023 5th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS) 11-13 October.doi:10.1109/brains59668.2023.10317054
- Keizer, N.V., Ascigil, O., Król, M. and Pavlou, G. (2023). Ditto: Towards Decentralised Similarity Search for Web3 Services. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS) 17-20 July.doi:10.1109/dapps57946.2023.00018
- Król, M., Ascigil, O., Rene, S., Sonnino, A., Al-Bassam, M. and Rivière, E. Shard scheduler. AFT '21: 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies.doi:10.1145/3479722.3480989
- Król, M., Sonnino, A., Tasiopoulos, A., Psaras, I. and Rivière, E. PASTRAMI. Middleware '20: 21st International Middleware Conference.doi:10.1145/3423211.3425669
- Król, M., Mastorakis, S., Oran, D. and Kutscher, D. Compute First Networking. ICN '19: 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking.doi:10.1145/3357150.3357395
- Ascigil, O., Reñé, S., Król, M., Pavlou, G., Zhang, L., Hasegawa, T.... Kita, K. Towards Peer-to-Peer Content Retrieval Markets. ICN '19: 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking.doi:10.1145/3357150.3357403
- Tasiopoulos, A.G., Ascigil, O., Rene, S., Krol, M., Psaras, I. and Pavlou, G. (2019). DEEM: Enabling Microservices via DEvice Edge Markets. 2019 IEEE 20th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM) 10-12 June.doi:10.1109/wowmom.2019.8793004
- Krol, M., Sonnino, A., Al-Bassam, M., Tasiopoulos, A. and Psaras, I. (2019). Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) 14-17 May.doi:10.1109/bloc.2019.8751406
- Król, M., Habak, K., Oran, D., Kutscher, D. and Psaras, I. RICE: remote method invocation in ICN. ICN '18: 5th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking.doi:10.1145/3267955.3267956
- Król, M., Reñé, S., Ascigil, O. and Psaras, I. ChainSoft. MobiSys '18: The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services.doi:10.1145/3211933.3211934
- Król, M. and Psaras, I. NFaaS. ICN '17: 4th International Conference on Information-Centric Networking.doi:10.1145/3125719.3125727
- Krol, M., Natalizio, E. and Zema, N.R. (2017). Tag-based data exchange in disaster relief scenarios. 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 26-29 January.doi:10.1109/iccnc.2017.7876283
- Korczyński, M., Król, M. and van Eeten, M. Zone poisoning: The how and where of non-secure DNS dynamic updates. IMC 2016: Internet Measurement Conference.doi:10.1145/2987443.2987477
- Krol, M., Ji, Y., Yamada, S., Borcea, C., Zhong, L. and Takano, K. (2016). Extending Network Coverage by Using Static and Mobile Relays during Natural Disasters. 2016 IEEE 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications: Workshops (WAINA) 23-25 March.doi:10.1109/waina.2016.147
- Audeoud, H.-.J., Krol, M., Heusse, M. and Duda, A. (2015). Low overhead loop-free routing in wireless sensor networks. 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 19-21 October.doi:10.1109/wimob.2015.7347996
- Król, M., Rousseau, F. and Duda, A. Featurecast: Lightweight Data-Centric Communications for Wireless Sensor Networks. .doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15582-1_13
- Balduf, L., Sokoto, S., Baronchelli, A., Castro, I., Król, M., Tyson, G.... Ascigil, O. Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs. .doi:10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35810
Journal articles (6)
- Keizer, N., Ascigil, O., Król, M., Kutscher, D. and Pavlou, G. (2024). A Survey on Content Retrieval on the Decentralised Web. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(8). doi:10.1145/3649132
- Król, M., Sonnino, A., Al-Bassam, M., Tasiopoulos, A.G., Rivière, E. and Psaras, I. (2021). Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 21(2), pp. 1-27. doi:10.1145/3419483
- Zhang, Z., Król, M., Sonnino, A., Zhang, L. and Rivière, E. (2021). EL PASSO: Efficient and Lightweight Privacy-preserving Single Sign On. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2021(2), pp. 70-87. doi:10.2478/popets-2021-0018
- Krol, M., Marxer, C., Grewe, D., Psaras, I. and Tschudin, C. (2018). Open Security Issues for Edge Named Function Environments. IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(11), pp. 69-75. doi:10.1109/mcom.2018.1701117
- Vucinic, M., Krol, M., Jonglez, B., Coladon, T. and Tourancheau, B. (2017). Trickle-D: High Fairness and Low Transmission Load With Dynamic Redundancy. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 4(5), pp. 1477-1488. doi:10.1109/jiot.2017.2650318
- Erdelj, M., Król, M. and Natalizio, E. (2017). Wireless Sensor Networks and Multi-UAV systems for natural disaster management. Computer Networks, 124, pp. 72-86. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2017.05.021