Partners

Sponsors

Our deep appreciation goes towards our sponsors for making this residency possible. We are an entirely grant-funded residency without profit incentives, and welcome any grants and donations from the applied cryptography community and beyond.

Want to support our mission? Check out our OpenCollective fundraiser for bank transfers and credit cards, Giveth for cryptocurrency, or otherwise get in touch!

» GCC: funding and supporting the development of global digital public goods.

Community Partners and Friends of the Residency

We are grateful to support and be supported by our broader community of friends and collaborators, including:

• Plurality Institute
• Taiwan Digital Identity Project
• Cursive
• ZK Email
• MPCStats
• Privacy & Scaling Explorations
• DWeb
• Emergent Research
• and more <3

Organizing Team

Our organizing team consists of:

» Ying Tong Lai (she/her)

Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer working on zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation. She is a regular contributor to community and educational initiatives (e.g. zkiap.com, halo2.club), as well as standards efforts (zkproof.org).

» Riley Wong (they/them)

Riley Wong (they/them) consults and conducts research as the principal of Emergent Research, investigating privacy, governance, and data. In particular, they’re exploring emerging privacy and cryptography tools with emphasis on applications for vulnerable communities and digital public infrastructure for collective agency and consent.

They’ve written and given talks on privacy-preserving data governance, applications of MP-FHE for vulnerable communities, collective governance, consent mechanisms, and more.

Previously, they were a research fellow with 0xPARC, machine learning engineer at Google, investigative journalism fellow at ProPublica, and a QTBIPOC community organizer.

» Janabel Xia (she/her)

Janabel Xia (she/her) is a mathematician working on researching and developing applications of privacy for communities.

Previously, she has worked with 0xPARC on research, building applications of ZKPs (POD counting, private polling), educational resources, and outreach. Prior to that, she has published academic research in both combinatorics and theoretical cryptography as an MIT undergrad.

She has also led community engagement programs out of the MIT PKG Center for Public Service. Her experience there has led to her current involvement in Justice 4 Housing, a local grassroots organization tackling housing justice and re-entry support for the formerly incarcerated.