Prof. Leonard Kleinrock

Professor Leonard Kleinrock is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. He developed the mathematical theory of data networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT in the period from 1960-1962. In that work, he also modeled the packetization of messages and solved for a key performance gain that packetization provides. The birth of the Internet occurred in his UCLA laboratory (3420 Boelter Hall) when his Host computer became the first node of the Internet in September 1969 and it was from there that he directed the transmission of the first message to pass over the Internet on October 29, 1969. He is Director of the UCLA Connection Lab. His groundbreaking contributions to the development of the Internet and decentralized networking systems have shaped the vision and overall design of the Möbby blockchain.

Prof. Yun Lu

Prof. Lu recently joined the University of Victoria as an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, during which she was a visitor at Academia Sinica and Simons Institute at Berkeley. She is a main contributor to the Möbby whitepaper.

Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky

Rafail Ostrovsky holds Norman E. Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences and is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UCLA; Fellow of AAAS; ACM; IEEE; IACR; and a foreign member of Academia Europaea, with over 330 refereed publications and 15 issued USPTO patents. He served as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing from 2015 to 2018 and served as a Chair of FOCS 2011 Program Committee (PC). He also served on over 40 other international conference PC’s and is currently serving on the editorial boards of Journal of ACM, Algorithmica Journal, and Journal of Cryptology. He is the recipient of multiple awards and honors including 1993 Henry Taub Prize; the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award; the 2018 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (also known as RSA Prize); and the 2022 W. Wallace McDowell Award.

Prof. Vassilis Zikas

Prof. Zikas is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech, with courtesy appointments at the Purdue Computer Science Department and the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science. Prior to his current appointment, he was an Associated Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University and the Director of the Purdue Blockchain Lab. He has played a pivotal role in designing the novel consensus mechanisms that underpin the Möbby blockchain. In the past, Prof. Zikas was an Associate Professor in Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh and Vice-Director of its Blockchain Technology Lab, and Research Fellow (area leader for Multi-party computation) of the blockchain company IOHK, and member of its core research team.