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Adrian Siegwart is Research Analyst & Advisor (DeFi | Web3) at Polkastarter. Formerly, Trader at Bitcoin Suisse AG, Crypto Research Analyst at Astronaut Capital.

Polkastarter

Adrian Siegwart

STARK Researcher, Co-founder & President of StarkWare. Also a Founding Scientist of Zcash and Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Eli has been passionate about the theory (“moon math”) and realization of transparent computational integrity since 2001, when he was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT and Harvard University, after completing his PhD in CS at the Hebrew University.

He is a Professor of Computer Science at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, which he joined in 2005, a co-inventor of the Zerocash decentralized anonymous payment system and a founding scientist of the Zcash company.

Eli Ben-Sasson

Cory Levinson is an independent researcher, software developer, and data scientist. He is an active contributor to various projects in the blockchain and peer-to-peer technology space, having worked with Oscoin, Secure Scuttlebutt, and more recently Clovers.Network.

Previously he was a data analyst, and later, PM for the data infrastructure team at SoundCloud for 5+ years. In 2017 while at Strelka Institute in Moscow he started actively researching in the blockchain space, where he led development for the speculative peer-to-peer energy project Phi. Since then, he has been working independently and as a consultant with projects across the decentralized space. With Clovers, Cory led network analysis for the project’s token economics research using BlockScience’s cadCAD framework for designing, testing and validating complex systems through simulation.

Clovers.Network is an Ethereum based project developed by Billy Rennekamp and Bin Studio with support from The Ethereum Community Fund, Fundacion Escultar Berrocal, Pioneer Works and L4. It is part game, part artwork and part workshop for some of the most exciting concepts within the Blockchain space: NFTs, Bonding Curves & Proof-of-Search among others. The initial reward pool is funded by $10,000 worth of Ether that is redeemable with the in-game currency, Clover Coin, via Bonding Curve in the app. Learn more about the project by visiting Clovers in the Crtyptoeconomic Lab of EthBerlin from August 23rd til August 25th where 3D prints of Clovers will be exhibited and generated in real time.

Cory Levinson

Martin Ortner is Security Engineer at ConsenSys Diligence.

A passionate Information Security expert with a background in Software Engineering, Software Quality Management and Automation, Software Vulnerability Research and Exploitation as well as Information Security Management that joined the Blockchain/DLT ecosystem to push for security.

I do Blockchain security research, practice responsible disclosure, used to be #3 on the Ethereum Vulnerability Leaderboard, #39 theCyber, published vulnerabilities in cpp-ethereum, mist, parity and bitcoin-core but also broke parts of Android, OpenSSH, Putty, Python, various Web Applications, Embedded Devices; I am OS agnostic, any programming language, any architecture, if in doubt things will be reverse engineered.

Martin Ortner

Philip Daian is a software engineer w a passion for security, p2p, applied crypto. Grasping for tractability 
at IC3. Applied Crypto, Distributed Systems, Programming Languages, Cryptoeconomics.

Philip Daian

Alex Manuskin is Blockchain Researcher at ZenGo.

I am a blockchain researcher, focused mainly on Web3 technologies. I research new blockchain technologies, smart contracts and DeFi applications. Interested in the technical and economical aspects of blockchain and smart contract security.

I hold a Master's degree from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. My Thesis was focused on scaling block validation.

Alex Manuskin

Alex Evans

Grigore Rosu is Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and President and CEO at Runtime Verification. Researcher, educator and entrepreneur in the areas of programming languages, formal methods and software engineering. My main objective is to design and develop techniques that help improve the quality, performance and effectiveness of computing systems.

Grigore Rosu

Evan Miyazono is Research Scientist at Protocol Labs, the team lead for Research at Protocol Labs. He has lived in California his whole life, bouncing between NorCal and SoCal. He spent enough of his childhood at beaches that a sandy shore always feels familiar; the rest was spent sitting at a computer, reading books, or disassembling things. He eventually majored in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford after unintentionally picking up minors in math and CS. He was then driven by his curiosity to a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Caltech and, upon completion, was lead to Protocol Labs by a desire to build systems that affect real people.

Evan still loves beaches, reading, and disassembly. Figuring out how things do, should, or could work is a passion, and sharing that knowledge is a favorite hobby. He'll go on for hours if you tell him you're interested in his thesis, so set a time limit before starting on that particular odyssey of quantum optics and nanofabrication.

Evan Miyazono

Kevin Lu is Data scientist at Coin Metrics. Former analyst at BridgeWater. Interested in cryptocurrencies and systematic, quantitative, and algorithmic investing.

I have extensive experience working with data in investment management with strong domain expertise in cryptocurrencies and systematic global macro investing. My focus is on quantitative research, building critical infrastructure elements along the entire data and systematic investing pipeline, and developing trading systems.

Previously worked as an analyst at Bridgewater Associates responsible for producing Bridgewater's Daily Observations, the firm's flagship research publication that is sent to 10,000 clients, including global leading institutional investors and policymakers. Also worked on the data team within the research department to create, transform, and deliver economic data used in trading systems for signal generation.

Experienced in using R in all steps of the data science and data engineering workflow, including authoring API clients, creating data pipelines, provisioning cloud compute and database services, wrangling data, creating visualizations, conducting exploratory research, modeling using machine learning and statistical techniques, communicating results using principles of reproducible research, creating web applications and visualization tools, and deploying models into production. Authored multiple R packages used internally.

I am interested in opportunities in investment management where I can use applications of data science.

Adrian Siegwart

Research Analyst (DeFi | Web3).

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