Alessandro Chiesa
Associate Professor
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Chiesa is an associate professor and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience bridging cryptographic research and real-world systems. As co-founder and chief scientist of StarkWare and a faculty member at EPFL (after appointments at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich), he focuses on cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and scalable blockchain protocols that enable practical privacy and integrity guarantees. Trained at MIT with a PhD in Computer Science and dual BS degrees in CS and Mathematics, he combines deep theoretical insight with hands-on engineering to move novel primitives into production. His career blends academic leadership—mentoring students and publishing foundational work—with startup velocity, helping drive one of the leading ZK scaling platforms. Notably, he operates at the intersection of rigorous proofs and product constraints, translating complex mathematics into deployable cryptographic infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
sat-solver10
c-library10
fhe10
tla9
cpp9
sonic8
cryptography7
rust7
testing2
zksnark1
proofs1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
compsec-epfl/theory-group.epfl.ch
Nov 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 2 months
bertinoro-proofs/bertinoro-proofs.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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