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Louis Guthmann is the Ecosystem Lead at StarkWare, a company specializing in cryptography and blockchain technology. He is also the co-founder of the Zero Knowledge Global Meetup, which focuses on promoting education and discussion about cryptography and blockchain. Prior to joining StarkWare, Louis worked as a data scientist, applying deep learning to cyber security at Check Point Software Technologies. He also has experience as a founder and data scientist at Lookies, where he developed data visualization tools and a general data management API for building management.
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Alessandro Chiesa
Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .
Jonathan Caras
Jonathan Caras is a core contributor and Head Of Communications at Levana Protocol. Previously, he was a partner at cryptocurrency hedge fund Lionschain and business development Manager at StarkWare.
Michael Riabzev
Michael Riabzev is Co-Founder & Chief-Architect at StarkWare. Cryptography expert, programming since I was 12.
Eli Ben-Sasson
Eli Ben-Sasson is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at StarkWare, a researcher of Zero Knowledge Proofs, and a Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company (aka Zcash Co). He was an Associate Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for seven years, a Visiting Assistant Professor at TTI Chicago, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Uri Kolodny
Uri Kolodny is the Co-Founder and former CEO of StarkWare, where he is working hard to scale blockchains using STARK zero-knowledge proofs. He has also served as an Advisor to Certora, Co-Founder and CEO of Mondria Technologies Ltd., Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock and ICV, and Co-Founder and CEO of Timna. Uri holds a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Moni Naor
Moni Naor is StarkWare's principal investigator and a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research focuses on the fundamentals of computer science, especially cryptography.
Avihu Levy
Avihu Levy is Chief Product Officer at StarkWare and was previously a KayHut security researcher. He graduated from the Technion.
Gideon Kaempfer
Gideon Kaempfer is vice president of engineering at StarkWare. Gideon holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Summa cum Laude), and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Summa cum Laude), both from the Technion. He is a serial technological entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, skilled in technical leadership, software and hardware architecture, IP networking & routing, cloud infrastructure, SDN, NFV, Telecom and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Before joining StarkWare, he held CTO / Chief Architect / Distinguished Technologist positions at numerous companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ConteXtream, Xring Technologies and several other start-up companies.