Team
Core

Niraj Pant
Co-founderGP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti
Co-founderPartner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Anish Agnihotri
MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo

Eva Zhang
Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford

Saneel Sreeni
Founding Team @ Alkimiya, Venture Partner @ Accomplice, Junior Partner @ Dragonfly, M.E.T. @ UC Berkeley

Maryam Bahrani
Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Arka Pal
Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

0xEmperor
Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Yahya Hassanzadeh
Cryptography @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, Ph.D. CS @ KU Distributed Systems

Igor Sylvester
Engineering Partner @ Trust Machines, Staff SWE ML @ Reddit & Meta, Citadel, EECS @ MIT

Praveen Palanisamy
Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

0xQTpie
mev, full stack engineering

Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Wally Chang
DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs

Misha Rybalov
Staff SDET @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, @ Norton, Sys Des Eng @ UWaterloo

Stelios Rousoglou
Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Celia Wan
Partner @ Dragonfly, Huobi Ventures, The Block, UChicago

Stef Henao
Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Arshan Khanifar
Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Peiyuan Liao
CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Hadas Zeilberger
PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

Joshua Simenhoff
Community @ Chainlink Labs, PC Gamer Magazine, Tom's Hardware, MakerBot

Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Ricky Moezinia
Founder @ Alta, Software Engineer @ Libra, Quant @ Point72, EECS @ MIT

Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

William Wang
Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography

Evangelos Barakos
Integrations @ Chainlink, @ Slingshot Finance, Lead Eng @ FilmChain, Eng @ Slock.it

Darryl Yeo
Founder @ blockhead.info, Software Engineer @ dYdX, CS @ Cal Poly SLO

Mario Bruh
web3 artist & pepe degenery
Interns
Advisors

Illia Polosukhin
Founder @ Near, Google Research, Tensorflow & Transformers, Co-Author “Attention is All You Need”

Arthur Hayes
CIO @ Maelstrom, Co-Founder @ BitMEX and 100x Group, Economics @ Wharton

Noam Nisan
Professor @ Hebrew University, Gödel Prize, Knuth Prize, Research @ Starkware, Research @ Google

Sreeram Kannan
Founder @ EigenLayer, Assistant Prof @ UW, Postdoc @ Stanford, PhD @ UC Berkeley

Tarun Chitra
Founder @ Gauntlet, GP @ Robot Ventures, HFT, DE Shaw Research, Math & CS @ Cornell

Divya Gupta
Partner @ Sequoia, ML @ Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir, CS @ Stanford

Sid Reddy
Research Scientist @ Isomorphic Labs, Meta Reality Labs, Deepmind, PhD @ UC Berkeley (Sergey Levine), CS @ Cornell