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Daejun Park is a Senior Blockchain Security Engineer at a16z crypto, developing formal methods and tools for web3 security to help portfolio companies in particular and the web3 community in general to raise their security bar. Prior to joining a16z crypto, he was a Director of Formal Verification at Runtime Verification.Early in his career, he was a founding member of another tech startup Sparrow. Daejun received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University. His work on language-parametric program verification received the Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA’16.
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