Joseph
Bonneau
Research Partner
Joseph Bonneau is a Research Partner on the a16z crypto team and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Courant Institute, New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, he received a PhD from Cambridge and postdocs at Princeton and Stanford and was an advisor to the Zcash, Algorand, Mina and Chia projects. He is a co-author of the textbook “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies”. His research focuses on applied cryptography and computer security and is known for pioneering work on Verifiable Delay Functions.
Representative works include:
- “CONIKS: Bringing Key Transparency to End Users” (with Marcela S. Melara, Aaron Blankstein, Edward W. Felten, and Michael J. Freedman)
- “Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes” (with Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun, Ye Zhang, and Michael Walfish)
- “Verifiable Delay Functions” (with Dan Boneh, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch)
- “Bicorn:An Optimistically Efficient Distributed Randomness Beacon” (with Kevin Choi, Arasu Arun, and Nirvan Tyagi)
- “Short-Lived Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Signatures” (with Arasu Arun and Jeremy Clark)
- “Limits on Revocable Proof Systems, with Applications to Stateless Blockchains” (with Miranda Christ)
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