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Israeli computer scientist and businessman

Eli Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: אלי בן-ששון) is an Israeli computer scientist known for his work on zero-knowledge proofs. He is also the co-founder and CEO of StarkWare Industries, and a former professor at Technion.

Career

Ben-Sasson studied theoretical computer science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his PhD in 2001.

In 2014, Ben-Sasson and other researchers collaborated on Zerocash, a design for a private cryptocurrency based on zero-knowledge proofs. Ben-Sasson later became a founding scientist of Zcash, which was based on the Zerocash design.

In 2018, Ben-Sasson and other researchers invented STARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof which has applications in blockchain privacy and scalability. Later that year, Ben-Sasson co-founded StarkWare Industries, which aims to scale blockchains using STARK techniques. Ben-Sasson later became CEO after Uri Kolodny stepped down from the role in 2024.

In April 2019, Technion sued Ben-Sasson along with co-founder Michael Riabzev, alleging that StarkWare Industries was based on intellectual property developed at the university. The institute demanded 50% of Ben-Sasson's stake in the company. Ben-Sasson maintained that the company merely used employees' knowledge, but no invention belonging to the Technion. In 2020 the two sides reached an agreement and Ben-Sasson left the Technion.

References

  1. ^ "Eli Ben-Sasson". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
  2. Sasson, EB; Chiesa, A; Garman, C; Green, M; Miers, I; Tromer, E; Virza, M (2014). Zerocash: Decentralized anonymous payments from bitcoin. 2014 IEEE symposium on security and privacy. pp. 459–474.
  3. "ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org.
  4. Ben-Sasson, Eli; Bentov, Iddo; Horesh, Yinon; Riabzev, Michael (November 1, 2018). "Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity" – via Cryptology ePrint Archive.
  5. ^ "Israeli blockchain firm develops 'fire prevention' tech to thwart FTX-style fraud | The Times of Israel".
  6. Bambysheva, Nina. "Ethereum Scaling Company StarkWare Quadruples Valuation To $8 Billion Amid Bear Market". Forbes.
  7. Hennessey, Zachy (February 5, 2023). "Israel's Ethereum scaling tool Starknet Prover will be made open source". The Jerusalem Post.
  8. Mohammed, Kiran Mathur (July 29, 2021). "Eli Ben-Sasson develops technology to make blockchain 20,000 times cheaper". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
  9. Allison, Ian (January 11, 2024). "StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny Steps Down Due to Family Health Issue". Coindesk.
  10. "Technion sues own lecturer, claims intellectual property infringement". The Jerusalem Post. April 23, 2019.
  11. Dobrovitsky, Lital (22 April 2019). "Technion Suing Senior Professor for 50% of His Company Stake". CTECH - www.calcalistech.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  12. Dor, Ofir (25 March 2021). "Blockchain scalability co Starkware raises $75m". Globes.
  13. Amitai Ziv. "Caring for Your CryptoKitties Has Never Been Easier, Thanks to These Israelis". Haaretz. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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