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Louis Guthmann is the Ecosystem Lead at StarkWare, a company specializing in cryptography and blockchain technology. He is also the co-founder of the Zero Knowledge Global Meetup, which focuses on promoting education and discussion about cryptography and blockchain. Prior to joining StarkWare, Louis worked as a data scientist, applying deep learning to cyber security at Check Point Software Technologies. He also has experience as a founder and data scientist at Lookies, where he developed data visualization tools and a general data management API for building management.
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Alessandro Chiesa
Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .
Jonathan Caras
Jonathan Caras is a core contributor and Head Of Communications at Levana Protocol. Previously, he was a partner at cryptocurrency hedge fund Lionschain and business development Manager at StarkWare.
Michael Riabzev
Michael Riabzev is Co-Founder & Chief-Architect at StarkWare. Cryptography expert, programming since I was 12.
Eli Ben-Sasson
Eli Ben-Sasson is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at StarkWare, a researcher of Zero Knowledge Proofs, and a Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company (aka Zcash Co). He was an Associate Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for seven years, a Visiting Assistant Professor at TTI Chicago, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Uri Kolodny
Uri Kolodny is the Co-Founder and former CEO of StarkWare, where he is working hard to scale blockchains using STARK zero-knowledge proofs. He has also served as an Advisor to Certora, Co-Founder and CEO of Mondria Technologies Ltd., Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock and ICV, and Co-Founder and CEO of Timna. Uri holds a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Avihu Levy
Avihu Levy is Chief Product Officer at StarkWare and was previously a KayHut security researcher. He graduated from the Technion.
Gideon Kaempfer
Gideon Kaempfer is vice president of engineering at StarkWare. Gideon holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Summa cum Laude), and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Summa cum Laude), both from the Technion. He is a serial technological entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, skilled in technical leadership, software and hardware architecture, IP networking & routing, cloud infrastructure, SDN, NFV, Telecom and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Before joining StarkWare, he held CTO / Chief Architect / Distinguished Technologist positions at numerous companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ConteXtream, Xring Technologies and several other start-up companies.