Emin Gun Sirer

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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