Founder and investor in infrastructure.
Work
- Axelar / Interop Labs — co-founder & CEO. Interoperability infrastructure for cross-chain messaging. Took it from research to public network launch; acquired by Circle (NYSE: CRCL).
- Algorand — founding team; led the cryptography team.
- University of Waterloo — Associate Professor, on leave. Ph.D., MIT (lattice cryptography); Sprowls Award, best CS thesis.
Investing — early-stage infrastructure and deep tech.
- Ely — integrated photonics for sensing
- Acceleron Fusion — muon-catalyzed fusion
- P-1 AI — an AI engineer for the physical world
- Cubist — hardware-backed key management
- Hiddenweights — automated AI training
Blog / Writing