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
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
Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.
Wally Chang
DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs
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
Ricky Moezinia
Founder @ Alta, Software Engineer @ Libra, Quant @ Point72, EECS @ MIT
Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics
Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley
Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel
William Wang
Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography
Darryl Yeo
Founder @ blockhead.info, Software Engineer @ dYdX, CS @ Cal Poly SLO
Varun Hariprasad
EECS @ MIT, Research @ MIT Physics (Marin Soljačić), CSAIL (LIS)
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
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
