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.