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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.
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Hongbo Wen
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.
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.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Colin Goltra
Colin Goltra is the former COO at YGG and the Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world's largest Cryptocurrency platform, where he is focused on expanding markets, access, and infrastructure for Crypto throughout the Philippines & Southeast Asia. Colin is an avid collector of NFT-based Crypto Art and an active proponent of Filipino self-empowerment in the Crypto-Metaverse. Along with Gabby Dizon, Colin co-created the Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. His thoughts on the Crypto Art movement have also been featured globally in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times Magazine,' as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications.
Binyi Chen
Binyi Chen is Chief Cryptozoologist at Espresso Systems and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Wei Dai
Wei Dai focuses on zero-knowledge cryptography and protocol design. Prior to his work as a research partner at 1kx, W. Dai worked as a research partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He also held research positions at NTT Research, the University of Washington, and Visa Research, where he contributed to cutting-edge research in the field of blockchain technology. W. Dai obtained his Ph.D. from UC San Diego and holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, as well as a Masters's from UCSB.
Jacky Wang
Jacky Wang is the co-founder of Shibuya, previously worked as a software engineer at Facebook and Instagram. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Giff Huang
Giff Huang is the co-founder of Shibuya and previously worked as an engineer at Instacart. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kevin Corstorphine
Kevin Corstorphine is head of DeFi growth at API3. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nick Martitsch
Nick Martitsch is head of market development at Paradigm. Previously, he was Partner Director at Compound Labs, Capital formation Associate at Pantera Capital, and co-founder of Cryptix.