Shumo Chu

Shumo Chu is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Manta Network in 2020, building zero-knowledge privacy infrastructure that began on Polkadot and later expanded to Ethereum with the Manta Pacific layer 2. He also co-founded NEBRA, whose Universal Proof Aggregation protocol reduces the cost of verifying zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington, where he published award-winning work on formal verification and database systems, and previously served as a research scientist at Algorand, where he led development of its smart contract platform. He has been an assistant professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara, with research focused on privacy-preserving systems.

9 talks by Shumo Chu