Experience

Aleph Zero

• Switzerland
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, President

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Aleph Zero is a Swiss non-profit. The foundation’s main task is to develop a decentralized DAG-based platform with a novel leaderless consensus protocol focused on offering a scalable privacy-enhancing smart contract infrastructure suitable for enterprise-grade applications. Using advanced cryptographic techniques such as secure multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption, the Aleph Zero platform enables computations on confidential data in a public and permissionless… Show more Aleph Zero is a Swiss non-profit. The foundation’s main task is to develop a decentralized DAG-based platform with a novel leaderless consensus protocol focused on offering a scalable privacy-enhancing smart contract infrastructure suitable for enterprise-grade applications. Using advanced cryptographic techniques such as secure multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption, the Aleph Zero platform enables computations on confidential data in a public and permissionless setting. Aleph is being built by a team of experts in such fields as mathematics, computer science, business development, marketing, and more. Show less



Cardinal Cryptography

• Poland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • May 2019 - Present

  Kraków Area, Poland Cardinal Cryptography is a team of experts in mathematics, cryptography, software development, marketing, and business that is ready to kick-off, transform, and support any initiative within the DLT space. For the past year, we’ve been busy working on a brand new consensus protocol—Aleph Zero. We believe the world can become decentralized and want to play a part in seeing that through.



OneLedger Technology Inc.

• Barbados
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Distributed Ledger Technology and Security Advisor

  • Feb 2018 - Present



Minterest

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Advisor - Technology

  • Oct 2020 - Dec 2022

  Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol built on Polkadot. Its unique design attracts and rewards long term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance.



HardFork Entertainment, Inc

• Technology Lead

  • Nov 2017 - Dec 2020



Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH

• Scientific Advisory Board Member

  • Dec 2017 - Dec 2019



Me

• Distributed Ledger Technology Consultant

  • Nov 2017 - Apr 2019

  Knoxville, Tennessee Area



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Center of Excellence Postdoc in High Performance Computing

  • Mar 2016 - Nov 2017

  Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States In collaboration with scientists at ORNL and nVidia, optimize code for high performance computing applications to run on Summit, the world’s most powerful supercomputer at the time.



The Fields Institute For Research In Mathematical Sciences

• Canada
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  Toronto Participated as a postdoctoral visitor in the 6 month long thematic program in ``Computer Algebra.''



The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

• Simons-Berkeley Fellow

  • Mar 2015 - Jul 2015

  Tsinghua University Conduct independent and collaborative mathematical research; attend seminars; interact with faculty, visiting scientists, postdoctoral scientists, and (under)graduate students.



Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

• Simons-Berkeley Fellow

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  UC-Berkeley Conduct independent and collaborative mathematical research; attend seminars; interact with visiting scientists, postdoctoral scientists, and graduate students.



National Institute of Mathematics (NIMS)

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Daejeon, South Korea Conduct independent and collaborative mathematical research; attend seminars; interact with visiting scientists.



Colorado State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

  • Aug 2008 - May 2014

  Fort Collins, CO As a graduate student, I taught the following courses in the indicated semesters. Calculus I for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2011 Calculus II for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Spring 2010 Calculus III for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Fall 2010 Calculus for Biological Scientists Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Mathematics for Social Scientists Summer… Show more As a graduate student, I taught the following courses in the indicated semesters. Calculus I for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2011 Calculus II for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Spring 2010 Calculus III for Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians. Fall 2010 Calculus for Biological Scientists Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Mathematics for Social Scientists Summer 2013 Ordinary Differential Equations Fall 2013 Duties for teaching: 1) Primary Instructor 2) Preparing 4 1-hour lectures per week 3) Designing, assigning, and grading homework and quizzes 4) Verify uniformity of mid-term examinations for multiple-section courses taught by different primary instructors ------- Various dissertation research topics: 1) Homotopy continuation methods in an application to rock magnetism. Duties: Developed and implemented, via rapid prototyping, several algorithms and methods. 2) Homotopy continuation methods in control theory. Center for Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Statistics (CIMS) Fellowship. 3) Designed and implemented software for parameter homotopies in parallel. 4) Designed and implemented software for the symbolic Gale transformation. 5) Computed performed statistical analysis of real solutions of polynomial systems equations related to phenomenological string theory. 6) Developed a heuristic based algorithm to avoid regions of numerical ill-conditioning along a homotopy path. Show less



Eastern Illinois University

• Math Tutor

  • Aug 2007 - May 2008

  Charleston, IL See below.



Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

• REU Participant

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

  Terre Haute, IN Open research and investigation in regards to the discrete logarithm problem as applied to elliptic curve cryptography.



Eastern Illinois University

• Math Tutor

  • Aug 2006 - May 2007

  Charleston, IL Undergraduate tutor for the mathematics department. Duties involved answering questions in all areas of mathematics and computer science.



Eastern Illinois University

• Network Administrator

  • Aug 2005 - Jun 2006

  Charleston, IL System administrative work at the Digital Printing Lab at Eastern Illinois University.

• Math Tutor

  • Aug 2005 - May 2006

  Charleston, IL See above.