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Hongbo Wen is the co-founder at Nubit. He is a senior Ph.D. student (on-leave) at UCSB, with a B.S. from Tsinghua University. His research in blockchain security has led to the discovery of numerous zero-day vulnerabilities and prevalent flaw patterns, particularly in smart contracts and Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) Circuits. His notable work includes the pioneering paper 'ZKAP' on identifying bug patterns within ZKP Circuits, presented at USENIX Sec '24.
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Yu Feng
Yu Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He cofounded Veridise and Nubit. Professor Feng has been recognized with prestigious academic awards for his contributions to the field, including best paper awards from top formal methods (PLDI’18, PLDI’22), software engineering (ASE’20), and HCI (CHI’21). He is also the recipient of Google Faculty award, Ethereum Academic award, and many others.
Hanzhi Liu
Hanzhi Liu is the co-founder at Nubit. He is a Ph.D. student (on-leave) at UCSB, with a B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research is centered on program verification, language semantics, and compiler optimizations. He has written formal proofs for most of the Ethereum Foundation PSE's projects and has discovered numerous zero-day vulnerabilities. He authored a notable paper on certifying ZKP circuits, accepted for S&P 2024, and has worked on mitigating on-chain attacks.
Adrian Wang
Adrian Wang is the Founder and CEO of Metalpha. He is also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Sustaintech Foundation. He graduated from Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance and holds an MBA degree from the HKUST Business School.
TY Shao
TY Shao is co-founder and head of Community at AgentLayer, where he also works at MetaTrust and Dyson Finance, and previously served as Head of Investment & Research at Outliers Fund. He graduated from Tsinghua University.
Jonathan Mui
Jonathan Mui is the co-founder and CEO of Moongate. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Canada.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Xmei Lin
Xmei Lin is the PMT General Manager at Bitmain.
John Gordon
John Gordon is a former partner at Beijing investment fund, INBlockchain. He has 15+ years of international experience in Chinese education. He received his degree in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University as well as an EMBA from Tsinghua University.
Chris Zheng
Chris Zheng is the CTO of Turbo Protocol and previously worked as a ZK researcher & engineer at PolyHedra. He graduated from Tsinghua University and McGill University in Canada.
Péter Garamvölgyi
Peter Garamvolgyi is the Lead, Protocol Engineering at Scroll and was previously an engineer at Conflux Network and president of the International Blockchain Association at Tsinghua University.