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Ariel Gabizon is Chief Scientist at Aztec Network and was previously a researcher at Protocol Labs and an engineer at Zcash. He mainly works on zk-SNARK technology. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Carl Cervone
Carl is the co-founder of Kariba Labs. Kariba's first product is Open Source Observer, an analytics platform that helps foundations and ecosystem funds allocate funding to open source projects. He is also an active Gitcoin Steward and Cup of Excellence board member. Carl is most passionate about using data to improve governance and public goods funding.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
Shahaf Gonen
Shahaf Gonen is a co-founder of Alterya and was previously a software engineer at Google. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Catrina Wang
Catrina Wang is an investment partner at Portal Ventures and head of Penn Blockchain's alumni network and conferences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Itay Shrem
Itay Shrem is the co-founder and CEO of SendBlocks. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ian Miers
Postdoc at Cornell Tech working on applied cryptography and computer security. Founding scientist of Zcash. Ian Miers is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech working on computer security and applied cryptography. His work takes a context-driven approach to making cryptographic systems secure, reasoning backwards from real world problems to design deployable cryptographic protocols that address the subtleties of security for production systems. This includes Zerocoin and Zerocash, the first systems to provide strongly private payments on top of public blockchains. It also includes works improving the security of mobile messaging, including attacks on iMessage and new techniques for forward secure encryption that guard against the exposure of encryption keys. He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University under Prof. Matthew Green. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired, The Economist, and denounced in at least 2 op-eds. He is one of the founders of Zcash, a privacy preserving cryptocurrency based on his work on Zerocash.
Guy Wuollet
Guy Wuollet is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Guy focuses on infrastructure and application layer investments across crypto. He believes decentralized networks can better align incentives on the Internet and enable the future of commerce and communication. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on independent research in concert with Protocol Labs. His work focused on building decentralized networking protocols and upgrading Internet infrastructure. Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he rowed on the Varsity Crew team.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet is the Founder and CEO, and the inventor of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). He is also the Founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Jesse Clayburgh
Upgrading the web with Protocol Labs, Filecoin and CoinList.
Colin Evran
Colin Evran is the Director of ecosystem at Protocol Labs and was previously the founder and CEO of Yard Club.