I’m the Founder and CEO at stealth working on decentralized AI economy built on trust, privacy and aligned incentives.
I’m also an honorary research fellow at Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at University of Warwick.
I was the Head of DeFi Research at Polygon. At Polygon, I also led the R&D and incubation of innovative blockchain primitives and co-authored the whitepaper of Polygon 2.0. I have authored multiple papers on the topics of zero knowledge proofs, privacy, novel design and risk assessment of DeFi protocols and crypto economics.
I am an active advisor and speaker in the blockchain community, and has served as a technical advisor for several blockchain startups. I have worked in quantitative roles in traditional finance firms like JPMorgan Chase and ICICI bank. I started my career as a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Ansys.
I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
- Blockchain
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Privacy
- Cryptoeconomics
- Smart contracts
- Cooking food and minting blocks
PhD in Economics
University of Warwick
MRes in Economics, distinction
University of Warwick
MA in Economics
Delhi School of Economics
BTech in Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Selected Press
- Bloomberg. Mukherjee, A. (2023, Jan 12). When Terminator Robots Police Loan Markets.
- Cointelegraph. Anderson, D. (2022, December 31). Proof of reserves is becoming more effective, but not all its challenges are technical.
- Cointelegraph. Chaudhary, A. (2022, December 30). What to expect from crypto the year after FTX.
- Messari. Oghenekaro, E. (2022, December 21). Gauntlet’s Proposal for Aave Protocol Risk Management: Failure and Future.
- Cointelegraph. Singer, A. (2022, December 7). Decentralized identity: Proving it’s really you in the 21st Century.
- Be In Crypto. Gogo, G. (2022, November 22). Decentralized Credit Scores: Polygon Looks to Disrupt Market With Its New Identity System.
- The Defiant. Chaudhary, A. (2022, November 14). A Recipe for Making DeFi Lending Sustainable and Stable.
- Bloomberg. Mukherjee, A. (2022, May 16). The World’s Best Stablecoin Has Advice for Newbies.
- Washington Post. Mukherjee, A. (2022, May 16). The World’s Best Stablecoin Has Advice for Newbies.
- Vox EU. Viswanath-Natraj, G; Chaudhary, A . (2022, May 13). Algorithmic stablecoins and devaluation risk.
- Ideas For India. Chaudhary, A; Yuan, S. (2022, April 28). Private returns to bureaucratic appointments: Evidence from financial disclosures in India.
