Misha Volkhov

Cryptography engineer & researcher, currently working with O1Labs within the Mina ecosystem. PhD from the University of Edinburgh 2022, BTL/LFCS, working on zero-knowledge proofs, advised by Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss. A founder of Metajoin Ltd, an IT consultancy company specialising in cryptography focused R&D.

While in Edinburgh I was a research consultant at IOG, and did a research internship at Ethereum Foundation. Before that I finished the MPRI master’s programme in 2019, and my bachelor’s degree is from ITMO University (CT department, 2017). I was a part of the Serokell team in 2015-2018 working on several blockchain-related projects including the original Cardano SL for IOHK. My area of software developer expertise then was mostly haskell ecosystem related, and I’m still a big haskell fan!

For recent activity see my blog and publications.