I’m the Founder of Palliora, a global network where anyone can share, monetize, and compute privately on their data with selective disclosure, verifiable results, and fair rewards.

I am building the foundation for a decentralized economy grounded in trust, privacy, and aligned incentives in the age of AI. This mission is being realized through Palliora’s ecosystem applications.

• Veilnyx, privacy protocol native to Ethereum with decentralized compliance.
• Lynra serves as an accountable DeFi agent, while
• Valorae can perform AI inference on sensitive data while maintaining user privacy. Additionally,
• Datari offers encrypted training to enhance data security.

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, where 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 have held 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.