Staff

Neha Narula | Director

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Chris Calabia | Senior Advisor and Head of Programs, Future of Financial Infrastructure

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Cory Fields | Bitcoin Core Developer

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Anthony (AJ) Towns | Bitcoin Core Developer (Independent Contractor)

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Ashley Jacobson | Program Manager

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Marco Falke | Bitcoin Core Developer (Independent Contractor)

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Molly Wexler-Romig | Administrative Assistant

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Anders Brownworth | Senior Research Advisor

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Mara van der Laan | Bitcoin Core Developer (Independent Contractor)

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Sebastian Kung | Bitcoin Core Developer (Independent Contractor)

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Michael Maurer | Software Engineer

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Student Team Members and Researchers

Ashwanth Samuel | Product Manager and Researcher

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Matthew Waleyko | Teaching Assistant

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Nicole Li | Undergraduate Researcher

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Lillian Wang | Undergraduate Researcher

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Victoria Ma | Undergraduate Researcher

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Kristian Praizner | Undergraduate Researcher

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Advisors

Ron Rivest | Faculty Advisor
Simon Johnson | Faculty Advisor
Deb Roy | Faculty Advisor
Robert M. Townsend | Faculty Advisor

Collaborators

Ethan Heilman | Bitcoin Research Collaborator
Dan Aronoff | Collaborator
Robert Bench | Collaborator
Andy Lippman | Collaborator
Madars Virza | Collaborator

Alumni - Team and Advisors

Brian Forde | Former DCI Director and Co-Founder
Jeremy Rubin | Co-Founder of DCI
Joi Ito | Former MIT Media Lab Director and Co-Founder of DCI
Sam Stuewe | Software Engineer
Reuben Youngblom | Interdisciplinary Decentralized Program Lead
Cristy Stiles | Communications Project Coordinator
Devin Dyson | Administrative Assistant II
Nicolas Xuan-Yi Zhang | CBDC Researcher
Alexander Jung | CBDC Software Engineer
Shira Frank | Strategic Advisor
Tadge Dryja | Research Scientist
Spencer Connaughton | Software Engineer
Althea Pieters | Central Bank Stakeholder Manager
Julie Smith | CBDC Strategy Researcher
Gary Gensler | Advisor
Gert-Jaap Glasbergen | Software Developer
Wassim Alsindi | Managing Editor of the CES Journal
Robleh Ali | Research Scientist
Michael J. Casey | Senior Advisor
Rhys Lindmark | Head of Community and Long-Term Societal Impact
Alin S. Dragos | Head of Strategic Partnerships
Christian Catalini | Advisor
Samantha Bates | Project Manager
Sophie Meralli | Project Manager
Chelsea Barabas | Former DCI Head of Social Innovation

Alumni - Graduate Students

Ethan Olesinski | Student Research Assistant and Engineer Summer 2024
Ayesha Ali | Masters of Engineering
Claire Bao | Masters of Engineering
Willie McClinton | Graduate Researcher Spring 2024
Hannah Shen | Strategic Partnerships & Research Associate
Gabriela Torres | CBDC Product Manager 2022-2023
Alistair Hughes | CBDC Product Manager 2022-2023
Andy Wong | OpenCBDC Community Manager 2022-2023
Lillie Huang | CBDC Product and Project Manager 2021-2022
Nikhil George | CBDC Product Manager 2021-2022
Shwetark Patel | Masters of Engineering Research Assistant Spring 2021 - Spring 2022
Tommy Shi | CBDC Working Group Product Manager 2021-2022
Dave Urness | Product Manager for Fed Collaboration 2020-2021
Claire Matthews | Teaching Assistant and Working Groups Project Manager 2020 - 2021
James Lovejoy | UROP (2015-2019) to Graduate Researcher - MEng 2019-2020
Jeremy B. Ney | Graduate Researcher
Kenny Li | Teaching Assistant and Working Groups Project Manager 2019-2020
Océane Boulais | Teaching Assistant Fall 2019
Eilon Shalev | Teaching Assistant and Working Groups Project Manager 2018-2019
Mark Weber | Graduate Researcher and Working Groups Project Manager 2017-2018
Henry Aspegren | Graduate Researcher (MEng) 2017-2018
Willy Vasquez | Graduate Researcher (MEng) Fall 2016 - Summer 2017
Jesus Mathus | Graduate Researcher Spring 2018
Nicola Greco | Graduate Researcher

Alumni - Undergraduate Research Students

Kaleb Asfaw | Undergraduate Researcher
Nicole Li | Undergraduate Researcher
Alicia Lin | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2025
Natasha Khoso | Undergraduate Researcher 2024 - User Experience Spring 2024
Sazma Sarwar | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 - Programmability and Treasury Operations
Josh Nix | Undergraduate Researcher IAP 2024 - Bitcoin and Ethereum Research
Antonio Ortiz | Currency Efficiency Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Fall 2023
Carol Chen | Currency Efficiency Undergraduate Researcher Spring and Fall 2023
Michael Sun | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2023 - Programmability and Treasury Operations
Ben Bakal | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2023- Proof-of-Work Protocol Modification and Repo Market Intermediation through Smart Contracts
Ashton Robinson | Ethereum Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2022 + Spring 2023
Daniel Xu | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2023
Dian Wen - CBDC Researcher Spring 2022
David Magrefty | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2022+
Eddy Onyango | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2021
Marco Fleming | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2021
Viktor Urvantsev | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2021
Anne Ouyang | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2020 + Fall 2020
Ananya Gurumurthy | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2020
Raunak Chowdhury | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2019
Cole Vick | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2019
Dan Cline | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2019
Trey Del Bonis | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2018
Luke Horgan | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2018
Nabeel Younis | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2018
Amanda Horne | Undergraduate Researcher Spring + Fall 2018
Marcin Jachymiak | Undergraduate Researcher 2018-2019
Bernard Snowden | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2017 - Summer 2018
Arturo Chavez-Gehrig | Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Nchinda Nchinda | Undergraduate Researcher Spring 2017
Ana C. Fiallo | Undergraduate Researcher 2018-2019
Michelle Lauer | Undergraduate Researcher 2018-2019
Andrew Koh | Undergraduate Researcher 2018-2019