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Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali

Formal First Name
Silvio
Dates
1954 - present
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Silvio Micali is a Turing Award-winning computer scientist who has acquired legendary status among the tech-savvy community due to his enormous contributions in his field. He is one of the most preeminent mathematicians and computer scientists of the last 50 years. Father to many of the key components of any functioning blockchain, he has helped pioneer many of the breakthrough technologies that help power blockchain today. Micali is the Founder of Algorand, one of the best performing Layer 1 blockchains ever created. He is responsible for overseeing all research, including theory, security, and cryptocurrency finance. A lauded MIT Professor, he has been a faculty member of MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department since 1983.

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  • Micali is one of the world’s foremost authorities on mathematics, computer science and cryptography.

  • He is the co-inventor of probabilistic encryption, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Verifiable Random Functions, and many other innovations that are the foundations of modern cryptography. 

  • He holds a total of 47 patents in the fields of random number generation, identification schemes, digital signatures, cryptography, digital certificates, and electronic transactions.

  • His research interests include cryptography, secure protocols, pseudo-random number generation, proof systems, distributed computation, zero-knowledge, mechanism design, blockchains, and cryptocurrencies.


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