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With extensive experience in reporting the latest technology trends in Asia, Frida was mesmerized by the potential of crypto and blockchain industries and has been devoting her career into the space ever since.

Frida holds a bachelor degree in Foreign Affair and a History minor from University of Virginia. She is also a graduate from Columbia University Journalism School with a Master of Science degree in Data Journalism.

Frida is a Manhattan-based pilates instructor. She is also an avid traveller, leaving her footprints in 25 countries so far.

Poisson random measure produces blockchain

Elvis serves as a researcher focusing on the simulation of dynamic SPA systems at Sperax.

He is currently a third-year PhD student with specialization on statistical modelling and optimization at the Department of Biostatistics, UCLA. Before joining Sperax, Elvis was a researcher of the School of Education and Information Studies where he developed systematic python codes for Rasch-type models as well as EM-algorithm and its variants. In addition, as an intern, he has been studying zero-shot and few-shot problems in the field of computer vision and deep learning for a long time at Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou.

Elvis is a master in playing the acoustic guitar. He believes that music cures us when we lose money playing with blockchain and let us put more money into it.

Enhancing the Sperax community

Alexandra Garza enhances the community experience and grows international partnerships at Sperax. Interested in blockchain affordances and the evolving dynamic between communication and technology, her most recent experience was in marketing at the fintech firm Trading Technologies.

Alexandra holds a bachelor’s degree and is currently completing her master’s degree in communication and media at DePaul University. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, going to museums, cooking and yoga.

Blockchain simulation and related product design

Andy joins Sperax with the enthusiasm to perform research on blockchain design and simulation, and related product design and development. He is experienced in data analysis and algorithm development.

Andy is currently a PhD candidate in the Statistics department at UCLA. Before that, he graduated with a Bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics. He is a soccer fan in his spare time.

Decentralization makes the dream connection

With a passion for marketing and communication, Iris joined Sperax hoping to expand her expertise to one of the most promising and exciting industries - the blockchain industry! Before Sperax, Iris worked as a marketing intern for a tech firm in Shenzhen, China, over the summer.

Iris is a rising sophomore at UCLA, pursuing a double major in Economics and Communication. She was born in Xi’an, China, and studied in Singapore under a scholarship for four years before she went to UCLA for undergraduate education. Iris has also worked for many clubs on campus on marketing strategies and consulting such as the Student Media Club and Undergraduate Economics Society.

Iris is also pursuing a minor in film and produced three short films over the last summer. In her free time, she does film and digital photography and plays the ukulele.

Always learning, always creating

As a Business Development analyst at Sperax, Katherine works to share Sperax with the world! She brings to the table her experience as Head of Business Development at Blockchain at Berkeley, her background in mathematics and the arts, her ability to connect with people, and her passion for all things blockchain!

Katherine is a 3rd year at the University of California, Berkeley, studying Applied Mathematics with a focus on Economics. Born in Tokyo, and having lived in many different countries, she enjoys experiencing new cultures and meeting new people. She is a pianist who likes to compose in her free time, as well as go to museums, study art history, and watch Formula 1 racing.

Decentralize everything

As a researcher at Sperax, Mihir is a 3rd year Computer Science major at the University of California, Davis. He’s super passionate about blockchain and is currently the President of Blockchain @ Davis, the UC Davis blockchain club.

Apart from blockchain, he is also interested in space travel, leading the Computer Systems subteam of the UC Davis Space and Satellite Systems club, working towards building a satellite which would be launched in 2021. He also loves playing Minecraft and Rocket League in his spare time.

All things can be modelled by mathematics

Dr. Yongge Wang has developed the 4-step BDLS Byzantine Fault Tolerance protocol for blockchains.

He obtained his PhD degree from Heidelberg University. Dr. Wang has published extensively on research topics including algorithmic information theory, cryptography, and post-quantum security. Dr. Wang has proved several classical results in modern effective randomness research which are included as the fundamental theorems in several Algorithmic Information Theory graduate textbooks. Dr. Wang is the inventor of two IEEE 1363 standardized techniques and holds 3 patents. Dr. Wang is one of the designers for fundamental W3C and IETF XML security techniques such as XMLENC and XMLDSig syntax. These standards are the starting point for all XML related security techniques.

Recently, Dr. Wang has been working on fully homomorphic encryption, garbled computation techniques, and applying these techniques to achieve privacy preserving computation in the cloud. Dr. Wang has designed quantum resistant public key encryption techniques RLCE (http://quantumca.org, https://github.com/yonggewang/ ) and developed the software package readily to be deployed.

Edging towards a decentralized future

Joe Yu helped Prof. Wang design the consensus protocol of Sperax as his chief research assistant. He is also a co-author and the conference presenter of Sperax’s IEEE paper -- “Sperax: An Approach To Defeat Long Range Attacks.” As an active voice in the crypto community, he has been invited to speak in various panels, interviews, universities and conferences, such as Diffusion Digital 2020, IEEE INFOCOM 2020, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Los Angeles, etc.

Joe is currently pursuing a Mathematics of Computation degree with a Philosophy Minor in UCLA and will graduate in December. As a young Bruin and one of the initial members of Sperax, Joe is passionate about building a decentralized, secure, high-performance platform for the value-embedded, next-generation internet.

Former Partner at Polychain and Web 3 foundation. Founder & Managing Director at Vine Ventures

Exploring emerging industries, geographies and alternative assets given the paradigm shift of the new world order.

Ryan is an executive that works to realize outlier returns for stakeholders in token-enabled decentralized consensus networks that leverage blockchain technology. After decade working in renewable energy focused on the negotiation, development, execution and operation of utility-scale renewable generation assets, Ryan discovered Bitcoin in late 2012 and subsequently became very passionate about the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology generally. He began as an Angel Investor supporting start-ups developing deeply compelling innovations with blockchain-enabled networks.