Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa is a tenured associate professor of computer science at EPFL and one of the foundational figures in zero knowledge cryptography. He is a co-inventor of the Zerocash protocol, an author of libsnark, and a co-founder of both Zcash and StarkWare Industries, where he serves as chief scientist. Trained at MIT under Silvio Micali, he spent several years on the UC Berkeley faculty before joining EPFL in 2021. His research on succinct proofs has earned him an IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test of Time Award, a CRYPTO best paper award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a place on MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 list.

5 talks by Alessandro Chiesa