Welcome!

My name is Martín Ugarte, but I guess you got that from the URL. Among other things, I'm a human being, a researcher, a pirate, a speaker and a developer; not necessarily in that order. I currently work for the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data both as a researcher and in tech-transfer projects. I was previously a researcher at the Free University of Brussels where I worked with Stijn Vansummeren. During my PhD at PUC Chile I worked with Marcelo Arenas on logics and query languages; my current work is mainly about the game-theoretic aspects of cryptocurrencies (though I still work on databases). I'm particularly interested in applied cryptography, with a special focus on the privacy of cryptocurrencies.
Oh, and I also build stuff... Like this website, this or this.
Now some photos of my beautiful country
yes, I took them :)




Sometimes I pretend to work...
Journal Papers
2020
2018
2017
2014
Conference Papers
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
Workshop Papers
2018
2017
2015
2014
Invited Talks
2019
2018
2017
Tutorials
2020
2018
I'll soon eventually never publish my lectures on Python programming and Logics for Computer Science. You can send me a message and I'll be glad to share them though.