Contributors

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Dr. Arthur Gervais

Arthur is a faculty member at the Imperial College London. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Liquidity Network. His research focuses on the security, privacy and financial aspects of decentralized technology. Arthur is motivated to understand new technologies rapidly, to quantify and systematize system properties. Uncovering tension points and tradeoffs in terms of security, privacy and performance is an exciting endeavour - especially when those apply faithfully to real world systems.

His research is inherently multidisciplinary and he frequently collaborates with colleagues worldwide in various fields.

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Prof. Dawn Song

Dawn is CEO and founder of Oasis Labs and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley.

Dawn has spent significant time researching and building security and privacy technologies, specifically in the areas of software, networking, distributed systems, applied cryptography, blockchains, smart contracts, and machine learning.

She has been recognized for contributions in computer security through numerous prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies.

She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She is a serial entrepreneur, including Ensighta Security (acquired by FireEye Inc.) and Menlo Security.