Riad Wahby
Riad is co-founder & CEO of key management infrastructure provider Cubist and an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an applied cryptographer and leading academic researcher on zero-knowledge proofs and their applications. He is a co-inventor of proof systems including Lasso, Hyrax, and Brakedown, and he has co-authored cryptographic specifications including RFC9380 and the BLS signatures standard used by Ethereum, Avalanche, and many other blockchains. Riad received his SB and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.
Riad is co-founder & CEO of key management infrastructure provider Cubist and an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an applied cryptographer and leading academic researcher on zero-knowledge proofs and their applications. He is a co-inventor of proof systems including Lasso, Hyrax, and Brakedown, and he has co-authored cryptographic specifications including RFC9380 and the BLS signatures standard used by Ethereum, Avalanche, and many other blockchains. Riad received his SB and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.
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