- Work on building the Axelar Network.
- Founding team of Algorand.
- Received a Ph.D. from MIT; Microsoft Ph.D. fellow; MSc and BSc from UToronto
- Ph.D. dissertation was on designing cryptographic tools for the cloud using lattice-based cryptography
- Received the Sprowls Doctoral Thesis Award for best thesis in CS at MIT.
- Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo (2016 - present; currently on leave).