Conflux

Fan Long is the founder of the Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute and currently an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. He graduated from Tsinghua University Yao Class, and he holds Ph.D of Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include systems security, programming language, and blockchain. He is a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award and MIT Best Dissertation Award. He has more than 20 publications on top computer science conferences with more than 1000 citations. He was also a competitive programmer. He won gold medals twice in International Olympiad of Informatics (2005, 2006), and ACM-ICPC Program Contest regional championship.

David Chow holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University Yao Class. His research interests include networking, systems, and blockchain. David was a system architect at an industry-leading automated trading firm, where he designed and optimized the infrastructures for large scale high-frequency trading. He is a competitive programmer who won a gold medal in the International Olympiad of Informatics in 2008, and he is also the regional champion in ACM-ICPC Programming Contest.

YuanJie holds a Bachelor's Degree from Fudan University and a Master's Degree from Brandeis University. Before becoming a founding member of Conflux, Yuanjie worked at Huatai Private Fund of Funds, UNC Endowment Management Company and Novus in Wall Street. He has expertise in investments, capital markets and business operations.

Ming Wu earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and his bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China. His main research interests include distributed transaction processing systems, graph computing engines, and artificial intelligence platforms. He has publications on top conferences in computer system, such as SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ATC, EuroSys, SoCC, VLDB, etc. He served as Program Committee Member of OSDI, ASPLOS, HotDep, MiddleWare, and also the Publication Chair of SOSP'17. Prior to becoming a founding member of Conflux, Ming was a senior researcher at Systems Research Group in Microsoft Research Asia. He designed and implemented large-scale and highly efficient distributed machine learning systems which were applied in Microsoft products.

Eden Dhaliwal leads global strategy & operations at Conflux Network. Previously, as a Partner at Outlier Ventures, Eden built the firm’s crypto economics practice and continues to support the venture firm as an Executive Advisor. Eden also serves as an Associate for Creative Destruction Lab, a founding member of Libra Association, and mentor for Gitcoin KERNEL. In prior roles, Eden launched a blockchain lab while serving as the CIO at Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and was the CEO at xyz futures, a venture development firm. In 2019, Eden received the Blockchain Research Institute’s award for New Frontier in Enterprise Blockchain Research. Eden holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Manitoba.

Andreas Veneris is a Connaught Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Andreas obtained a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, an MSc from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Department of Computer Science and an undergraduate Diploma from the University of Patras, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics. Andreas also held positions at the Athens University of Economics and Business and at the University of Tokyo.

Andreas Park is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto, appointed to the Rotman School of Management, the Institute for Management and Innovation, and the Department of Management at UTM. He currently serves as the Research Director at the FinHub, Rotman’s Financial Innovation Lab, he is the co-founder of the LedgerHub, the University of Toronto’s blockchain research lab, a lab economist for blockchain at the Creative Destruction Lab, an economic advisor to Conflux Network, and a consultant to the OSC and IIROC. Andreas teaches courses on FinTech and financial market trading, and his current research focuses on the economic impact of technological transformations such as blockchain technology.