Exploring the past, present, and future of zkEVMs

Ben is the VP of Research at Matter Labs and an associate professor at Imperial College London. Ben is a computer scientist with a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, with an h-index of 57 and over 10,000 citations to his papers. He is an inventor skilled at translating academic research into industrial practice, a research manager leading high-performance applied research teams, and a professor. Most of his work has direct industrial applications. Currently, he serves as the VP of Research at Matter Labs. Previously, he led teams as the CEO of Zilliqa Research, a layer-1 blockchain, and as the Chief Scientist at Brave Software, leading innovative development across cryptography, machine learning, performance, security, privacy, and other domains. For many years, he worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research in Seattle. He has also taught at UW, MIT, and Imperial College London. He has also filed dozens of patents based on his inventions.

Currently working at PSE (EF). I worked for two years on the zkEVM and I'm currently doing research and exploration in multiparty FHE

Co-founder at Scroll

Polygon

Jordi is Co-Founder of Polygon. He led the development and implementation of Polygon zkEVM, a leading zk-rollup. As one of the most widely recognized Ethereum developers, he has made several high-impact contributions to the Ethereum community, including CIRCOM and PIL, free and open-source projects demonstrating his commitment to Web3 values. He has a long history in the Ethereum community, including co-founding the WhiteHat Group to save funds during The DAO hack early in the network’s history.

Mamy has been an Ethereum core dev for 5 years, developing the Nimbus consensus client. After the success of The Merge, he now focuses on scaling Ethereum, by leading the ZK engineering team at Taiko.

Rami is part of the zeth team at RISC Zero. He received his PhD from Imperial College London, where he researched layer-one and layer-two blockchain mechanisms.