Zilliqa

Amrit is the Head of Research for Zilliqa. He holds a PhD from Université Grenoble-Alpes, France and was hosted at Inria's Grenoble center. Prior to his PhD, he obtained an Engineer's diploma from Ecole Polytechnique, France, where he studied Computer Science and Mathematics. His research interests broadly span security, privacy and applied cryptography.

Yaoqi is the Head of Technology for Zilliqa. His prior experience focuses on building secure and privacy-preserving web and distributed systems with cryptographic mechanisms. He proposed several technologies in his research as the building blocks for next-generation blockchain, addressing consensus and privacy issues. His research work has been published in top international conferences, such as CCS, USENIX Security, PETS, RAID, ESORICS. He has received the Best Paper Award in W2SP (2014) and ICECCS (2014). His work was acknowledged by Google and Apple (CVE-2014-7948 for Chrome and CVE-2015-5907 for Safari) and has received media coverage including Dailydot, Gizmodo and Techspot.

Dr. Xinshu Dong is a highly-esteemed and established expert in cybersecurity and blockchain technology. With his deep technical expertise and industry credibility, Dr. Xinshu Dong plays a critical role in providing the product strategy and vision in RockX.Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Zilliqa, leading the development of the firstpublic blockchain in the world to successfully achieve high throughput via sharding. The market capitalization for Zilliqa is $1.6 billion at its all-time high, ranking it in the top 30 blockchain projects. Dr. Xinshu Dong holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore.

Prateek Saxena is the Co-founder at Zilliqa.