Selected Publications

Over the last couple of years, Bitcoin cryptocurrency and the Blockchain technology that forms the basis of Bitcoin have witnessed a flood of attention. In contrast to fiat currencies used worldwide, the Bitcoin distributed ledger is publicly available by design. This facilitates observing all financial interactions on the network, and analyzing how the network evolves in time. We introduce a novel concept of chainlets, or Bitcoin subgraphs, which allows us to evaluate the local topological structure of the Bitcoin graph over time. Furthermore, we assess the role of chainlets on Bitcoin price formation and dynamics. We investigate the predictive Granger causality of chainlets and identify certain types of chainlets that exhibit the highest predictive influence on Bitcoin price and investment risk.
In PaKDD, 2018

Bitcoin and its underlying technology Blockchain have become popular in recent years. Designed to facilitate a secure distributed platform without central authorities, Blockchain is heralded as a paradigm that will be as powerful as Big Data, Cloud Computing and Machine learning. Blockchain incorporates novel ideas from various fields such as public key encryption and distributed systems. As such, a reader often comes across resources that explain the Blockchain technology from a certain perspective only, leaving the reader with more questions than before. We will offer a holistic view on Blockchain. Starting with a brief history, we will give the building blocks of Blockchain, and explain their interactions. As graph mining has become a major part its analysis, we will elaborate on graph theoretical aspects of the Blockchain technology. We also devote a section to the future of Blockchain and explain how extensions like Smart Contracts and De-centralized Autonomous Organizations will function. Without assuming any reader expertise, our aim is to provide a concise but complete description of the Blockchain technology.
Tutorial on Arxiv.org, 2017

Recent Publications

. Forecasting Bitcoin Price with Graph Chainlets. In PaKDD, 2018.

Preprint PDF Code Dataset Project Slides

. Blockchain: A Graph Primer. Tutorial on Arxiv.org, 2017.

Preprint PDF Project

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Blockchain Analytics - A Data Science Perspective
Mar 13, 2018 1:00 PM

Recent Posts

Blockchain Revolution provides a good overview on where the technology can be used.

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Truth Machine positions Blockchain as the building block of a trust based world.

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Projects

Blockchain Data Analytics

Tools to anayze data created through Blockchains.

Deep Learning

Node and subgraph embeddings for deep learning.

Teaching

Fall 2020

I am teaching the Blockchain Data Analytics course at the University of Texas at Dallas.

  • My office hours are Wednesday 11:00-12:00 online.
  • Course material will be posted to UMLearn.

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