CURRICULUM VITAE: Iain Stewart
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 Current or most recent employment
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 From 13/04/2015 to 31/07/2025:
  Imperial College,
  London SW7 2AZ, UK.
 Post: research assistant
 Brief description of duties:
  Helping with research, teaching (mainly student projects) and
  public events (talks etc), within the various parts of Imperial
  involved in cryptocurrency research (initially computing /
  the crypto centre, later the business school /
  [in practice still also] computing / crypto centre).
 Reason for leaving:
  The funding covering this post came to an end.



 Previous posts
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 From 01/1991 to 12/2011:
  Imperial College,
  London SW7 2AZ, UK.
 Post: teaching assistant
 Brief description of duties:
  Helping with the running of labs/tutorials/projects in the
  computing department, including behind-the-scenes support such as
  electronic submission and automated testing of students' work.
 Reason for leaving:
  There was a reorganisation of the teaching support jobs,
  where having a PhD was the new preferred standard.
  Those without a PhD (including me) were fired.

 From 06/1986 to 09/1986:
  British Telecom Research Laboratories,
  Martlesham Heath,
  Ipswich,
  Suffolk, UK.
 Post: summer job
 Brief description of duties:
  There weren't really very precise duties, but what I ended up doing
  was writing (the beginnings of) an interpreter for the
  logic programming language Prolog, to run on "transputer"
  parallel-processing chips.



 Publications
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  "Committing to quantum resistance: a slow defence for Bitcoin
    against a fast quantum computing attack"
  I. Stewart, D. Ilie, A. Zamyatin, S. Werner, M. F. Torshizi and W. J. Knottenbelt
  Royal Society Open Science, 20 June 2018
  DOI:10.1098/rsos.180410

  "Committing to Quantum Resistance, Better: A Speed-and-Risk-Configurable
    Defence for Bitcoin Against a Fast Quantum Computing Attack"
  Dragos I. Ilie, William J. Knottenbelt, Iain D. Stewart
  Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (pp.117-132), February 2020
  DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-37110-4_9

  "Unstable Throughput: When the Difficulty Algorithm Breaks"
  Dragos I. Ilie, Sam M. Werner, Iain D. Stewart, William J. Knottenbelt
  IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), May 2021
  DOI:10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461086



 Educational Qualifications
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 Degree obtained 1987 from
  Imperial College,
  London SW7 2AZ, UK.
 Degree is BSc(Eng) Computing,
  grade First Class Honours.

 School qualifications: exams sat at
  Alva Academy,
  Cochrane Park,
  Alva,
  Scotland FK12 5LY, UK.

 Date      Subject            Examination Type  Grade
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 05/1983   Mathematics I      SCE CSYS          A
            [Algebra, Trigonometry]
 05/1983   Mathematics II     SCE CSYS          A
            [Geometry, Calculus]
 05/1983   Mathematics IV     SCE CSYS          A
            [Computing, Numerical Analysis]
 05/1983   Physics            SCE CSYS          A
 05/1983   Chemistry          SCE CSYS          A



 References
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 For cryptocurrency research job:
  Will Knottenbelt,
  Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering,
  Imperial College,
  London SW7 2AZ, UK.
  wjk@imperial.ac.uk

 For teaching assistant job:
  Tony Field,
  Dept of Computing,
  Imperial College,
  London SW7 2AZ, UK.
  ajf@imperial.ac.uk

 For 1980s summer job:
  Rita Attkins,
  Personnel (TEP 1.1.1),
  British Telecom Research Laboratories,
  Martlesham Heath,
  Ipswich,
  Suffolk, UK.