Eli Ben-Sasson

Eli Ben-Sasson is the CEO and co-founder of StarkWare. A former academic, he got into blockchain via theoretical computer science. He has been researching cryptographic and zero knowledge proofs, which are today used to power blockchain scaling protocols, ever since he received his Phd in Theoretical Computer Science from the Hebrew University in 2001. He is a co-inventor of the STARK, FRI and Zerocash protocols and a founding scientist of the Zcash Company. He has held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and most recently was a professor of computer science at Technion in Israel.