Soumya
Basu

I build the systems underneath crypto exchanges, blockchain networks, and financial markets — the matching engines, relay networks, and cryptographic protocols that institutions depend on but rarely see. That work has meant co-founding two infrastructure companies and publishing research across both systems (ACM CCS, SIGCOMM) and financial economics (Management Science, Journal of Financial Economics).

My PhD at Cornell, under Emin Gün Sirer, focused on the systems and economics of cryptocurrency protocols. Before that, CS at UC Berkeley. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship supported my doctoral work.

The next generation of financial market infrastructure will borrow heavily from public blockchain technology — and some of it will run on public chains directly. The engineering required to make that work at institutional scale is the problem I keep coming back to.