What is Nexus?

Our mission is to bring truth to the fabric of the Internet. We envision an Internet built on verifiable computation, where everyone can own and protect their identities online, where institutions will be held to higher levels of accountability, where people will be able to have greater trust in any online interaction.

To do this we’re using the latest advancements in cryptography, computer science, mathematics, engineering, and open source to develop technologies – the Nexus zkVM and Nexus Network – that will enable verifiable computation at hyper scale. We’re backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, and have assembled a team comprised of the world’s leading experts in their fields. 

Whether as an employee, partner or community member, we invite you to join us and be part building the verifiable Internet.

First three photos from ZK Proof 6

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Leadership

Daniel Marin

Chief Executive

B.S. in CS @ Stanford
2x IPhO Medallist

Jens Groth

Chief Scientist

Inventor of pairing-based zkSNARKs
Prev. Director of Research @ DFINITY
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ UCL, London

Alex Fowler

Chief Strategy Officer

B.A. @ Brown, M.A. @ George Washington

Prev. Co-Founder & SVP @ Blockstream

Prev. Chief Privacy Officer @ Mozilla

Prev. with Transparent, PwC, Zero-Knowledge Systems, EFF, and AAAS

Don Beaver

Vice President, Cryptography

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Harvard

Prev. Chief Cryptographer @ Jump
Prev. Staff Research Scientist @ Meta
Inventor of Triples, SumCalc, Decentralized Beacons, Correlated Pseudorandomness

John Slater

Vice President, Brand

Prev. Brand Creative Director @ Meta
Prev. Creative Director @ Twitter
Prev. Director of Creative @ Mozilla

Engineering & Research

Michel Abdalla

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UCSD

Advised by Mihir Bellare

President @ International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ ENS, France

Arka Rai Choudhuri

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Johns Hopkins University

Advised by Abhishek Jain

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, NTT Research

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley

Yoichi Hirai

Ph.D. in CS @ U. Tokyo

Advised by Masami Hagiya

Prev. Formal Verification Engineer @ Ethereum

Ben Hoberman

B.S. in EECS @ Berkeley

Research @ RISE/Sky Computing Lab

Prev. Systems Security Engineer @ Opaque Systems

Alec Huang

BA in Math, CS @ Berkeley

Prev Software Engineer @ Magic Eden

Prev Staff Engineer @ Uber

Prev Software Engineer @ Meta AI

Collin Jackson

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford

Advised by Dan Boneh

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University

Prev. Staff Software Engineer, Flutter @ Google

Inventor of HTTP Strict Transport Security


Samuel Judson

Ph.D. in CS @ Yale
Prev. Security Engineer @ Auth0
7+ papers in ZKPs, Formal Methods & AI

Victor Lopez

B.S. in CS @ USP

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Sovereign Labs

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Polygon Labs

Prev. Maintainer @ Arkworks

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Fuel Labs

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Dusk Network

Peyman Manikashani

M.Sc. in CS, Computer Vision @ UCalgary

Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Alchemy

Prev. Technical Lead @ Nuro

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Convoy

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Duc Nguyen

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ GMU

3x NSUCRYPTO medalist

Evan Schott

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Compiler Engineer @ Provable

Kristian Sosnin

B.S. in Math @ Moscow State
Prev. Rust Developer @ Matter Labs
Prev. Rust Core Engineer @ Parity

Yinuo Zhang

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Berkeley

Advised by Sanjam Garg
5+ papers in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Prev. zkVM Research Intern @ a16z Crypto.


Strategy

Erica Jostedt

Head of Strategic Communications

Prev. Head of Global Communications @ Mozilla

Prev. Director of Strategic Comms @ Shutterfly

Prev. Head of Comms @ Technical Magic AI

Sean Martell

Director of Design

Prev. Director, Brand Design @ DuckDuckGo

Prev. Creative Lead, Brand @ Mozilla

Daisy Pulido

Executive Assistant, CEO

B.A in H.D @ CSUEB

Prev. Executive Assistant @ RapidAPI

Lilia Tsalenko

Talent Team

MS in Mathematics @ Moscow State University

Prev. Executive Recruiter @ Box, Head of Talent Acquisition @Blockstream
Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems, startups

Steve Yu

Head of BD

B.S. Hospitality Administration @ Cornell
Prev. VP of BD @ Celer Network
Prev. VP of Marketing @ Zicasso
Prev. United States Marine Corps

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Advisors

Yevgeniy Dodis

Head of Cryptography @ NYU

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ MIT
Prev. Visiting Professor @ Harvard & Berkeley

Chelsea Komlo

Chief Scientist @ Zcash

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UWaterloo
Board of Directors @ Tor Project

Zhenfei Zhang

Cryptographer @ Ethereum

Prev. Algorand, Espresso
Co-author of HyperPlonk, VeriZexe, etc.

Giuseppe Persiano

Cryptographer @ Google

Professor @ U. Salerno, Italy
Ph.D. in CS @ Harvard
Co-Inventor of Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

David Wu

Professor of Cryptography @ UT Austin

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford
M.S. and B.S. in CS @ Stanford

Helger Lipmaa

Professor of Cryptography @ U. Tartu

20+ years of publications in zkSNARKs

Daniel Vogel

CEO & Co-Founder @ Bitso

MBA @ Harvard
B.S. in CS & Econ @ Stanford

Gengmo Qi

Partner @ Dragonfly

Ph.D. in CS @ Cornell
Prev. Researcher @ Chainlink

What is Nexus?

Our mission is to bring truth to the fabric of the Internet. We envision an Internet built on verifiable computation, where everyone can own and protect their identities online, where institutions will be held to higher levels of accountability, where people will be able to have greater trust in any online interaction.

To do this we’re using the latest advancements in cryptography, computer science, mathematics, engineering, and open source to develop technologies – the Nexus zkVM and Nexus Network – that will enable verifiable computation at hyper scale. We’re backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, and have assembled a team comprised of the world’s leading experts in their fields. 

Whether as an employee, partner or community member, we invite you to join us and be part building the verifiable Internet.

First three photos from ZK Proof 6

internal

Leadership

Daniel Marin

Chief Executive

B.S. in CS @ Stanford
2x IPhO Medallist

Jens Groth

Chief Scientist

Inventor of pairing-based zkSNARKs
Prev. Director of Research @ DFINITY
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ UCL, London

Alex Fowler

Chief Strategy Officer

B.A. @ Brown, M.A. @ George Washington

Prev. Co-Founder & SVP @ Blockstream

Prev. Chief Privacy Officer @ Mozilla

Prev. with Transparent, PwC, Zero-Knowledge Systems, EFF, and AAAS

Don Beaver

Vice President, Cryptography

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Harvard

Prev. Chief Cryptographer @ Jump
Prev. Staff Research Scientist @ Meta
Inventor of Triples, SumCalc, Decentralized Beacons, Correlated Pseudorandomness

John Slater

Vice President, Brand

Prev. Brand Creative Director @ Meta
Prev. Creative Director @ Twitter
Prev. Director of Creative @ Mozilla

Engineering & Research

Michel Abdalla

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UCSD

Advised by Mihir Bellare

President @ International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ ENS, France

Arka Rai Choudhuri

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Johns Hopkins University

Advised by Abhishek Jain

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, NTT Research

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley

Yoichi Hirai

Ph.D. in CS @ U. Tokyo

Advised by Masami Hagiya

Prev. Formal Verification Engineer @ Ethereum

Ben Hoberman

B.S. in EECS @ Berkeley

Research @ RISE/Sky Computing Lab

Prev. Systems Security Engineer @ Opaque Systems

Alec Huang

BA in Math, CS @ Berkeley

Prev Software Engineer @ Magic Eden

Prev Staff Engineer @ Uber

Prev Software Engineer @ Meta AI

Collin Jackson

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford

Advised by Dan Boneh

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University

Prev. Staff Software Engineer, Flutter @ Google

Inventor of HTTP Strict Transport Security


Samuel Judson

Ph.D. in CS @ Yale
Prev. Security Engineer @ Auth0
7+ papers in ZKPs, Formal Methods & AI

Victor Lopez

B.S. in CS @ USP

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Sovereign Labs

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Polygon Labs

Prev. Maintainer @ Arkworks

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Fuel Labs

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Dusk Network

Peyman Manikashani

M.Sc. in CS, Computer Vision @ UCalgary

Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Alchemy

Prev. Technical Lead @ Nuro

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Convoy

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Duc Nguyen

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ GMU

3x NSUCRYPTO medalist

Evan Schott

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Compiler Engineer @ Provable

Kristian Sosnin

B.S. in Math @ Moscow State
Prev. Rust Developer @ Matter Labs
Prev. Rust Core Engineer @ Parity

Yinuo Zhang

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Berkeley

Advised by Sanjam Garg
5+ papers in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Prev. zkVM Research Intern @ a16z Crypto.


Strategy

Erica Jostedt

Head of Strategic Communications

Prev. Head of Global Communications @ Mozilla

Prev. Director of Strategic Comms @ Shutterfly

Prev. Head of Comms @ Technical Magic AI

Sean Martell

Director of Design

Prev. Director, Brand Design @ DuckDuckGo

Prev. Creative Lead, Brand @ Mozilla

Daisy Pulido

Executive Assistant, CEO

B.A in H.D @ CSUEB

Prev. Executive Assistant @ RapidAPI

Lilia Tsalenko

Talent Team

MS in Mathematics @ Moscow State University

Prev. Executive Recruiter @ Box, Head of Talent Acquisition @Blockstream
Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems, startups

Steve Yu

Head of BD

B.S. Hospitality Administration @ Cornell
Prev. VP of BD @ Celer Network
Prev. VP of Marketing @ Zicasso
Prev. United States Marine Corps

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Advisors

Yevgeniy Dodis

Head of Cryptography @ NYU

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ MIT
Prev. Visiting Professor @ Harvard & Berkeley

Chelsea Komlo

Chief Scientist @ Zcash

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UWaterloo
Board of Directors @ Tor Project

Zhenfei Zhang

Cryptographer @ Ethereum

Prev. Algorand, Espresso
Co-author of HyperPlonk, VeriZexe, etc.

Giuseppe Persiano

Cryptographer @ Google

Professor @ U. Salerno, Italy
Ph.D. in CS @ Harvard
Co-Inventor of Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

David Wu

Professor of Cryptography @ UT Austin

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford
M.S. and B.S. in CS @ Stanford

Helger Lipmaa

Professor of Cryptography @ U. Tartu

20+ years of publications in zkSNARKs

Daniel Vogel

CEO & Co-Founder @ Bitso

MBA @ Harvard
B.S. in CS & Econ @ Stanford

Gengmo Qi

Partner @ Dragonfly

Ph.D. in CS @ Cornell
Prev. Researcher @ Chainlink

What is Nexus?

Our mission is to bring truth to the fabric of the Internet. We envision an Internet built on verifiable computation, where everyone can own and protect their identities online, where institutions will be held to higher levels of accountability, where people will be able to have greater trust in any online interaction.

To do this we’re using the latest advancements in cryptography, computer science, mathematics, engineering, and open source to develop technologies – the Nexus zkVM and Nexus Network – that will enable verifiable computation at hyper scale. We’re backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, and have assembled a team comprised of the world’s leading experts in their fields. 

Whether as an employee, partner or community member, we invite you to join us and be part building the verifiable Internet.

First three photos from ZK Proof 6

internal

Leadership

Daniel Marin

Chief Executive

B.S. in CS @ Stanford
2x IPhO Medallist

Jens Groth

Chief Scientist

Inventor of pairing-based zkSNARKs
Prev. Director of Research @ DFINITY
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ UCL, London

Alex Fowler

Chief Strategy Officer

B.A. @ Brown, M.A. @ George Washington

Prev. Co-Founder & SVP @ Blockstream

Prev. Chief Privacy Officer @ Mozilla

Prev. with Transparent, PwC, Zero-Knowledge Systems, EFF, and AAAS

Don Beaver

Vice President, Cryptography

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Harvard

Prev. Chief Cryptographer @ Jump
Prev. Staff Research Scientist @ Meta
Inventor of Triples, SumCalc, Decentralized Beacons, Correlated Pseudorandomness

John Slater

Vice President, Brand

Prev. Brand Creative Director @ Meta
Prev. Creative Director @ Twitter
Prev. Director of Creative @ Mozilla

Engineering & Research

Michel Abdalla

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UCSD

Advised by Mihir Bellare

President @ International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Prev. Professor of Cryptography @ ENS, France

Arka Rai Choudhuri

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Johns Hopkins University

Advised by Abhishek Jain

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, NTT Research

Prev: Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley

Yoichi Hirai

Ph.D. in CS @ U. Tokyo

Advised by Masami Hagiya

Prev. Formal Verification Engineer @ Ethereum

Ben Hoberman

B.S. in EECS @ Berkeley

Research @ RISE/Sky Computing Lab

Prev. Systems Security Engineer @ Opaque Systems

Alec Huang

BA in Math, CS @ Berkeley

Prev Software Engineer @ Magic Eden

Prev Staff Engineer @ Uber

Prev Software Engineer @ Meta AI

Collin Jackson

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford

Advised by Dan Boneh

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Research Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University

Prev. Staff Software Engineer, Flutter @ Google

Inventor of HTTP Strict Transport Security


Samuel Judson

Ph.D. in CS @ Yale
Prev. Security Engineer @ Auth0
7+ papers in ZKPs, Formal Methods & AI

Victor Lopez

B.S. in CS @ USP

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Sovereign Labs

Prev. Staff Engineer @ Polygon Labs

Prev. Maintainer @ Arkworks

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Fuel Labs

Prev. Sr. Engineer @ Dusk Network

Peyman Manikashani

M.Sc. in CS, Computer Vision @ UCalgary

Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Alchemy

Prev. Technical Lead @ Nuro

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Convoy

Prev. Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Duc Nguyen

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ GMU

3x NSUCRYPTO medalist

Evan Schott

B.S. in CS @ Yale

Prev. Compiler Engineer @ Provable

Kristian Sosnin

B.S. in Math @ Moscow State
Prev. Rust Developer @ Matter Labs
Prev. Rust Core Engineer @ Parity

Yinuo Zhang

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ Berkeley

Advised by Sanjam Garg
5+ papers in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Prev. zkVM Research Intern @ a16z Crypto.


Strategy

Erica Jostedt

Head of Strategic Communications

Prev. Head of Global Communications @ Mozilla

Prev. Director of Strategic Comms @ Shutterfly

Prev. Head of Comms @ Technical Magic AI

Sean Martell

Director of Design

Prev. Director, Brand Design @ DuckDuckGo

Prev. Creative Lead, Brand @ Mozilla

Daisy Pulido

Executive Assistant, CEO

B.A in H.D @ CSUEB

Prev. Executive Assistant @ RapidAPI

Lilia Tsalenko

Talent Team

MS in Mathematics @ Moscow State University

Prev. Executive Recruiter @ Box, Head of Talent Acquisition @Blockstream
Prev. Staff Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems, startups

Steve Yu

Head of BD

B.S. Hospitality Administration @ Cornell
Prev. VP of BD @ Celer Network
Prev. VP of Marketing @ Zicasso
Prev. United States Marine Corps

external

Advisors

Yevgeniy Dodis

Head of Cryptography @ NYU

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ MIT
Prev. Visiting Professor @ Harvard & Berkeley

Chelsea Komlo

Chief Scientist @ Zcash

Ph.D. in Cryptography @ UWaterloo
Board of Directors @ Tor Project

Zhenfei Zhang

Cryptographer @ Ethereum

Prev. Algorand, Espresso
Co-author of HyperPlonk, VeriZexe, etc.

Giuseppe Persiano

Cryptographer @ Google

Professor @ U. Salerno, Italy
Ph.D. in CS @ Harvard
Co-Inventor of Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

David Wu

Professor of Cryptography @ UT Austin

Ph.D. in CS @ Stanford
M.S. and B.S. in CS @ Stanford

Helger Lipmaa

Professor of Cryptography @ U. Tartu

20+ years of publications in zkSNARKs

Daniel Vogel

CEO & Co-Founder @ Bitso

MBA @ Harvard
B.S. in CS & Econ @ Stanford

Gengmo Qi

Partner @ Dragonfly

Ph.D. in CS @ Cornell
Prev. Researcher @ Chainlink