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Alessandro Chiesa

Italian computer scientist

Known for: Italian computer scientist

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Biography

Alessandro Chiesa is an Italian computer scientist. He is an associate professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and a now-adjunct professor at University of California, Berkeley. He has contributed to the field of zero-knowledge proofs, and was a co-founder of Zcash and StarkWare Industries.

Career Roles

co-founder
Zcash

Key Achievements

  • 1987Chiesa was born in Varese, Italy in 1987.
  • 2015Chiesa became an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 2015.
  • 2013In 2013, Chiesa coauthored a paper and implementation of TinyRAM, a virtual machine whose execution could be proven using zero-knowledge proofs.
  • 2014In 2014, Chiesa coauthored the design of Zerocash, which laid the foundation for the Zcash protocol.
  • 2020In 2020, Chiesa coauthored the design of Zexe, a related protocol which drew on ideas from Zerocash and extended it to arbitrary computations.

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