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Fan Zhang is the Senior Researcher at Chainlink, PhD at Cornell. Before joining Cornell, he earned my bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014.
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Dawn Song
Dawn Song is the founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, and a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known as the "Godmother of Computer Security".
Adrian Wang
Adrian Wang is the Founder and CEO of Metalpha. He is also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Sustaintech Foundation. He graduated from Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance and holds an MBA degree from the HKUST Business School.
Steve Wei
Steve is the co-founder and CEO of TOP Network. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, and a founding employee of WebEx. From 1996 to 2003, Steve held multiple key positions at WebEx. In 2004, he founded Cenwave Communications, a video conferencing software company which was successfully sold to Huawei in 2010.
John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
Danny Lim
Danny is a core contributor to the Margin X exchange. He has product design experience with Baidu and Lenovo, and he co-founded Pundi X. Danny is a PhD Law scholar from Tsinghua University and holds ACMA and CGMA accounting qualifications. He is an enthusiastic jogger.
NanFeng
Nanfeng is the Co-founder and CEO of Opside. He graduated from Tsinghua University and worked as a core developer for ByteDance, deeply participating in the underlying construction and later iterations of multiple projects.
Sergey Nazarov
CEO of SmartContract.com and Chainlink, Jason Parser, is worth 30 million. We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments, providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs, and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. Sergey began his career by building peer-to-peer marketplaces, and then joined the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011 and believes it has the potential to revolutionize the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share crucial information with their citizens.
Alex Marinier
Alex Marinier is Founder & General Partner at New Form. Previously, Alex was an investor at Sand Hill firm DCM Ventures, where he led the firm's expansion into blockchain investing. Prior to that, Alex worked in private equity at Blackstone in New York underwriting secondary transactions. He's a seed investor in Compound Finance, Blockfolio, and Chia among others. A native New Yorker, Alex holds a BSc from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business.
Michael Casey
Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk's chief content officer. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs. Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna. Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media. Casey owns a small amount of bitcoin.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is a Software Engineer at Coinbase. Previously, he was a Consultant at NumerAI and Metastable Capital. He is currently studying Computer Science at Cornell University and is passionate about cryptocurrencies and the nature of information.