Biography: Eli Ben-Sasson is the president, co-founder and chairman of StarkWare Industries Ltd., a blockchain development company launched in 2018 to focus on the technology’s scalability, security and privacy. He is a founding scientist of the Zcash Company and co-inventor of the ZK-STARK, FRI and Zerocash protocols. Ben-Sasson studied computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he received his PhD in theoretical computer science in 2001. Since then, he has researched cryptographic and zero-knowledge proofs of computational integrity. Between 2001 and 2005, he held research positions at Harvard University, MIT and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. More recently, he was a professor of computer science at Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, which he left to help launch StarkWare.