The Nexus
Team

Our team of world-class scientists and engineers is developing a supercomputer at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and zero knowledge.

Our team of world-class scientists and engineers is developing a supercomputer at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and zero knowledge.

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Leadership

Daniel Marin

Chief Executive

B.S. in CS @ Stanford
2x IPhO Medallist

Jens Groth

Chief Scientist

Inventor of pairing-based zkSNARKs
Prev. Director of Research @ DFINITY
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ UCL, London

Alex Fowler

Chief Strategy Officer

B.A. @ Brown, M.A. @ George Washington

Prev. Co-Founder & SVP @ Blockstream

Prev. Chief Privacy Officer @ Mozilla

Prev. with Transparent, PwC, Zero-Knowledge Systems, EFF, and AAAS

John Slater

Vice President, Brand

Prev. Brand Creative Director @ Meta
Prev. Creative Director @ Twitter
Prev. Director of Creative @ Mozilla

Lauren Dresnick

Vice President, Global Marketing

Prev. Director, Growth Marketing @ Ripple
Prev. Head of US Growth & Customer Marketing

@ Arta Finance
Prev. Marketing Advisor & Interim VP of Marketing

@ Mina Foundation

Lisa Haugh

Vice President, People

Prev. Chief People Officer @ Agility Robotics
Prev. Chief People Officer and General Counsel @ SigFig
Prev. VP of People and General Counsel @ Udemy
BA @ UCLA, JD @ Santa Clara University

Diego Prats

Vice President, Engineering

AB @ Harvard, MS in Engineering @ USC
Prev: Principal, R&D @ DFINITY
Prev: Director @ DFINITY
Prev: VP, Engineering @ Overnight

Riyaz Faizullabhoy

Vice President, Security

Prev. CTO @ a16z Crypto

Security Infrastructure, Blockchain @ Facebook

Founding Engineer @ Anchorage

Benjamin Richman

Vice President, Digital Assets

MBA @ Duke

Founder @ Openlev Coworking

Prev. Managing Director of Digital Currency @ Silvergate Bank

Prev. Director of Business Development @ Blockstream
Prev. Marketing Strategy and Operations Manager @ YouTube

Engineering

Austin Chandra

Member of Technical Staff

B.S. in EECS @ Berkeley

Prev. Blockchain Researcher @ Atlantis
Prev. Software Engineer @ Robinhood

Prev. Software Engineer @ Apple

Collin Jackson

Member of Technical Staff

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford

Advised by Dan Boneh

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University

Prev. Staff Software Engineer, Flutter @ Google

Inventor of HTTP Strict Transport Security


Samuel Judson

Member of Technical Staff

Ph.D. in CS @ Yale
Prev. Security Engineer @ Auth0
7+ papers in ZKPs, Formal Methods & AI

Duc Nguyen

Member of Technical Staff

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ GMU

3x NSUCRYPTO medalist

Evan Schott

Member of Technical Staff

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Compiler Engineer @ Provable

Sam Shih

Member of Technical Staff

B.S. @ UWaterloo

Prev. Software Engineer @ Discord

Kristian Sosnin

Member of Technical Staff

B.S. in Math @ Moscow State
Prev. Rust Developer @ Matter Labs
Prev. Rust Core Engineer @ Parity

Joseph Zhang

Member of Technical Staff

M.S. in CS, B.S. in CogSci @ Stanford

Prev. Consultant @ McKinsey

Gates Foundation Scholar

Intel International Science Fair Finalist

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Advisors

Yevgeniy Dodis

Head of Cryptography @ NYU

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ MIT
Prev. Visiting Professor @ Harvard & Berkeley

Chelsea Komlo

Chief Scientist @ Zcash

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UWaterloo
Board of Directors @ Tor Project

Zhenfei Zhang

Cryptographer @ Ethereum

Prev. Algorand, Espresso
Co-author of HyperPlonk, VeriZexe, etc.

Giuseppe Persiano

Cryptographer @ Google

Professor @ U. Salerno, Italy
Ph.D. in CS @ Harvard
Co-Inventor of Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

David Wu

Professor of Cryptography @ UT Austin

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford
M.S. and B.S. in CS @ Stanford

Helger Lipmaa

Professor of Cryptography @ U. Tartu

20+ years of publications in zkSNARKs

Daniel Vogel

CEO & Co-Founder @ Bitso

MBA @ Harvard
B.S. in CS & Econ @ Stanford

Gengmo Qi

Partner @ Dragonfly

Ph.D. in CS @ Cornell
Prev. Researcher @ Chainlink