James Parker
Research Engineer, Galois
James Parker is a Research Engineer at Galois with a background in programming languages and formal methods. His research spans guaranteeing the security and correctness of distributed systems, advancing secure computation, verifying information flow control mechanisms, and studying secure development practices. James earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
Jonathan Rouach
Executive Director, ZKProof.org
CEO and co-Founder, QEDIT
Jonathan S. Rouach is the co-founder and CEO of QEDIT, helping enterprises leverage their data using Privacy Enhancing Techniques such as Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Before that, he co-founded a blockchain security company (sold to Digital Asset Holding), co-founded the Israeli Bitcoin Association , and co-founded Bits of Gold LTD, the leading Bitcoin exchange in Israel. Jonathan is an Electrical-Engineer from the Technion, served as an analyst in the Israeli Intelligence.
Eran Tromer
Professor, Boston University
Founder, Sealance
Eran Tromer is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, working on cryptography and information security. He studies ways to build robust distributed computer systems that ensure privacy and integrity, using cryptographic tools such zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption. He also studies the resilience of computing platforms to data theft and tampering, such as side-channel attacks at the physical and software levels.
He is a founding scientist of the Zcash privacy-preserving blockchain; a founder of Sealance, which builds blockchain-based privacy-preserving financial regulation technology; and a founder of the ZKProof Standardization Effort. He received his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and previously pursued his research at Columbia University, Tel Aviv University, MIT and Microsoft Research.
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
CTO and co-founder, Ligero Inc.
An expert on zero-knowledge proofs, secure multiparty computation, and concurrent security, Muthu earned his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is the CTO and co-founder of Ligero Inc. which builds state of the art zero-knowledge and multiparty computation protocols. Muthu is one of the founding members of the zero-knowledge standardization. He is a recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award and the ICDE 2017 Influential Paper Award.
