Misha Volkhov

I'm not nearly as grumpy most of the time actually

Cryptography researcher & engineer.

PhD from the University of Edinburgh 2022, BTL/LFCS, working on zero-knowledge proofs, advised by Markulf Kohlweiss. Master’s at MPRI, Bachelor’s at ITMO University (CT department).

Founder and CTO of Anafi, building privacy-preserving automation and delegation for DeFi. Founder of Metajoin Ltd, an IT consultancy company specialising in cryptography-focused R&D, currently working closely with Clique. Ex-researcher / ZK engineer in o1Labs, worked on Ensue/Project Untitled within the Mina ecosystem. While in Edinburgh I was a research consultant at IOG/IOHK, and did a research internship at Ethereum Foundation. 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 development expertise then was mostly haskell ecosystem related, and I’m still a big haskell fan!

For recent professional activity see the o1Labs crypto seminar, my blog and publications. I also do a bit of music, see my youtube and soundcloud!