Danai Balla
Research Fellow, Archimedes Research Unit at National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolDanai Balla is a cryptography-focused researcher and software engineer based in Athens, currently a Research Fellow at Athena Research Center and a PhD candidate at NTU Athens studying blockchain and distributed ledgers. With three years of hands-on experience bridging academia and industry, she has designed smart-contract applications and supported partner integrations while at Mysten Labs and continues to teach and mentor as a teaching assistant. Her background in mathematics (top 10% of her class) and an MSc in Algorithms, Logic and Discrete Mathematics underpin a rigorous approach to protocol design and formal reasoning. Comfortable moving between research, teaching, and applied engineering, she brings practical implementation experience to theoretical problems and a track record of translating cryptographic ideas into working blockchain solutions.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Algorithms, Logic and Discrete Mathematics, 9.5/10, Master of Science - MS, Algorithms, Logic and Discrete Mathematics, 9.5/10 at National & Kapodistrian University of AthensMathematics, Mathematics at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyPhD, Blockchain and distributed ledgers theory, PhD, Blockchain and distributed ledgers theory at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, French
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Github Skills (16)
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throughput10
aptos10
smart-contracts10
contract10
programming-language10
move10
solidity10
sui10
ethereum10
blockchain10
cosmwasm10
distributed-ledger-technology10
plutus1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
danaiballa/merkle-trees
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
Implementation of merkle trees for fun :)
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
danaiballa/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 day
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