Runchao Han
Staff Research Engineer at Babylon Labs
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRunchao Han is a researcher-engineer with a decade of experience specializing in blockchain, cryptography, and decentralized systems, currently building Babylon — a Bitcoin-security-inspired PoS blockchain — at Babylon Labs. He holds a PhD from Monash University and has blended academic research at CSIRO-Data61 with hands-on engineering, focusing on blockchain scalability and applied cryptography. His work spans full-node implementations and cross-chain infrastructure, including Babylon full node, a Babylon–Bitcoin relayer, and an IBC relayer for Cosmos zones. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has taught graduate blockchain courses and contributed to both industry and academic projects. Based in Melbourne, he combines deep protocol-level knowledge with practical relayer and interoperability engineering. An indicator of his pragmatic research approach is driving real-world tooling (relayers and full nodes) rather than only theoretical papers.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Advanced Computer Science, Master's degree, Advanced Computer Science at The University of ManchesterBachelor's degree, E-commerce Engineering with Law, Bachelor's degree, E-commerce Engineering with Law at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Blockchain and Applied Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Blockchain and Applied Cryptography at Monash University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (78)
mining10
information-gathering10
ethereum10
blockchain10
infosec9
twitter9
linux9
cybersecurity9
sherlock9
languagetool9
cli9
social-media9
cosmos9
python9
p2p9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
babylonlabs-io/cosmos-bsn-contracts
Aug 2024 - Jan 2026
CosmWasm smart contracts for Babylon integration
Contributions:204 reviews, 75 PRs, 191 pushes in 1 year 4 months
cosmwasmsmart-contracts
babylonlabs-io/rollup-bsn-contracts
May 2025 - Aug 2025
CosmWasm smart contracts for rollup BSN integration
Contributions:90 reviews, 24 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
cosmwasmsmart-contracts
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