About me

My work spans the boundary between rigorous research and systems that operate at scale. I specialize in building digital infrastructure that can sense, verify, and coordinate with physical world—whether that’s confirming someone’s presence at a location, measuring network performance, or verifying real-world task execution.

I co-founded Witness Chain, where we pioneered protocols such as Proof of Location, Proof of Bandwidth, and Proof of Diligence. These systems have been deployed across over 6,000 nodes globally and are secured by more than $5 billion in restaked assets. Witness Chain raised $8 million in seed funding and laid the groundwork for a new class of infrastructure networks.

Before that, I spent several years in academia—first at UIUC, where I completed my PhD on resilient consensus systems and the blockchain trilemma, and later at Princeton University, where I co-taught a course on decentralized finance. My research has resulted in peer-reviewed papers and novel protocols such as Proof of Location, Free2Shard, Barracuda, and ZeroSwap. I’m a recipient of a Best Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

I help teams build robust systems that are grounded in real-world constraints. I operate at the edge of research, engineering, and strategy.

Technical Areas of Focus

Consensus protocols for physical-state agreement
Design of robust financial instruments for DeFi
Distributed verification using delay-physics, polling systems, and adaptive protocols
Task planning and robotics using VLMs and reinforcement learning

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