Team

We’re always looking for opportunities to collaborate with the broader ecosystem. If you have any questions, comments, ideas, or more, we would love to hear from you: communityprivacyteam@protonmail.com

» Ying Tong Lai (she/her)

Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer working on zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation. She is the co-founder and CTO of { ideal }, a startup specialising in cryptographic primitives for private payments. She was one of the main authors of the Zcash Orchard payment protocol, and led the OpenAC digital identity project at the Ethereum Foundation. She is a regular contributor to community and educational initiatives, as well as standards efforts.

» Riley Wong (they/them)

Riley Wong (they/them) is the Principal of Emergent Research, investigating collective data action and community privacy, agency, and consent. Their work focuses on privacy and cryptography for vulnerable communities, consent-based digital infrastructure, and collective data governance. Previously, they’ve worked as a machine learning engineer at Google, investigative journalism fellow at ProPublica, and a QTBIPOC community organizer, and they’ve written, spoken, or researched at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Metagov, 0xPARC, DWeb, and more.

» Janabel Xia (she/her)

Janabel Xia (she/they) is a Math PhD student at Harvard whose research focuses on theoretical cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies for real-world communities. She was a core contributor to the OpenAC digital identity project at the Ethereum Foundation. She has also conducted research with 0xPARC, MIT, the University of Minnesota (Duluth and Twin Cities), and Oregon State University. Her undergraduate work in combinatorics and cryptography has been published in high-quality academic journals.