Emin Gun Sirer

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• Emin Gün Sirer

• Profession: Software Engineer, Scholar
• Emin is the co-director of IC3 and associate professor of computer science at Cornell University. His main research areas cover operating systems, networking and distributed systems.
• Most well known to be a system builder and has made vast contributions on the field of cryptocurrencies, helping build many functional systems for bitcoin (Bitcoin-NG, Covenants, Falcon Relay System https://www.falcon-net.org/)
• Created Teechan, a Lightning Network alternative. http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/12/22/scaling-bitcoin-with-secure-hardware/
• helped with smart contracts for Ethereum and to expose multiple flaws on the DAO, before the hack
• Worked on NoSQL and data stores (created HyperDex and Weaver).
• Was also behind Karma, the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint, and helped create Nexus http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/nexus/, an operating system for trustworthy computing. His research interests span distributed systems, cryptocurrencies, and software infrastructure for large scale services.
• Vaults, “How to Put an End to Bitcoin Theft” http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/02/29/bitcoin-vaults/
• Tezos, advisor