Emin Gün Sirer
Emin Gün Sirer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ava Labs. He works on self-organizing systems, which span operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. Most of his research emphasizes building systems based on principled reasons for their correct functioning. His current projects involve a novel secure operating system and system infrastructure for high-performance cloud computing applications. He likes building things, especially systems that have some principled reason for why they should work.
Emin Gün Sirer Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Associate Professor of Computer Science
Academic History
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PhD In Computer Science
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BSE in Computer Science
CAREER
- Sirer is an outspoken member of the hacker community, running a technology blog called Hacking Distributed that questions current practices.
- He is well-known for having implemented the first currency that used proof-of-work to mint coins, for his research on selfish mining, characterizing the scale and centralization of existing cryptocurrencies, and for proposing the leading protocols for on-chain and off-chain scaling.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University
- Co-Director for Cornell’s Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts
- Blockchain Advisor for the WeTrust
RESEARCH ON FULL BLOCKCHAIN STACK
- scalable and lightweight consensus protocols
- high-performance networking
- security of smart contracts and blockchains
- high-performance Layer 2 solutions
- scalability and decentralization of extant blockchains