The 1st CDFT Annual Summit

The Center for Digital Finance and Technologies hosted its 1st Annual Summit on December 1st, 2023, at The Tang Family Hall in the Columbia Innovation Hub. Event participants will include Columbia affiliate members of the Center, as well as a select group of external stakeholders, including researchers and executives from companies in the space of blockchain, DeFi, and more broadly FinTech.

Program

A summary of the program can be viewed below. The full program book can be found here.

Agostino Capponi & Garud Iyengar, Columbia Engineering

9:20 AM - Introduction
Shihao Yu, Columbia Engineering

9:20 AM - Speaker 1A
Austin Adams, Uniswap Labs
“A Primer on Uniswap v4 core”

9:40 AM - Speaker 1B
Brian Zi Qi Zhu, Columbia Engineering
“The Paradox of Just-in-Time Liquidity: More Providers Can Sometimes Mean Less Liquidity”

10:00 AM - Introduction
Omid Malekan, Columbia Business School

10:00 AM - Speaker 2A
Tim Roughgarden, Columbia Engineering
“Transaction fee mechanism design in a post-MEV era”

10:20 AM - Speaker 2B
Junfeng Yang, Columbia Engineering
“SmartInv: Multimodal Learning for Smart Contract Invariant Inference”

10:40 AM - Speaker 2C
Gur Huberman, Columbia Business School
“Who pays for products/services supported by a blockchain?”

11:15 AM - Introduction
Agostino Capponi, Columbia Engineering

11:15 AM - Speaker 3A
Ali Hirsa, Columbia Engineering, ASK2.ai, Sauma Capital, LLC
“AI Advancements in Asset Management”

11:35 AM - Speaker 3B
Subir Chatterjee, Fi-Tek, LLC
“How can AI enable financial advisors to provide custom solution to next generation of wealth owners with scale”

11:55 AM - Speaker 3C
Sahil Garg, Morgan Stanley
“Robust OOD Detection for Continual Learning via Dual Divergence Estimation”

1:15 PM - Introduction
Brett Mollin, Ripple

1:15 PM - Speaker 4A
Ruizhe Jia, Columbia Engineering
“Maximal Extractable Value and Allocative Inefficiencies in Public Blockchains”

1:35 PM - Speaker 4B
Mike Neuder, Ethereum Foundation
“Why it's hard to enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation...”

1:55 PM - Speaker 4C
Sveinn Olafsson, Stevens Institute of Technology
“Model of the MEV supply chain under PBS”

2:30 PM - Introduction
Jay Sethuraman, Columbia Engineering

2:30 PM - Speaker 5A
Brett Mollin, Ripple
"Enhancing Cross Border Payments with CBDC"

2:50 PM - Speaker 5B
Yiming Ma, Columbia Business School
“Stablecoin Runs and the Centralization of Arbitrage”

3:10 PM - Speaker 5C
Michael Junho Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of NY
“Perspectives on Central Bank Digital Currencies”

3:30 PM - Agostino Capponi, Columbia Engineering