Hong Gil-dong

Amrit Kumar is the President and Co-Founder of Zilliqa. Focusing predominantly on areas of security, privacy and applied cryptography, Amrit’s research has been widely published at conferences such as IEEE/IFIP and IFIP TC-11 SEC. Amrit received his PhD from Université Grenoble-Alpes, France and was hosted at Inria’s Grenoble center. Prior to his PhD, Amrit obtained a Master’s Degree in Security, Cryptology and Coding of Information Systems from École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et Mathématiques Apliquées de Grenoble, France.

Computer Science researcher/professor at UFF (Niterói, Brazil). Developing technologies in Optimization, Blockchain and GPU Computing.

NEO founder and core developer, author to dBFT consensus mechanism, expert on blockchain technology and computer security and a certified information system auditor (CISA).