Ari Juels | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ari Juels |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Topics in black-box combinatorial optimization (1996) |
| Academic advisor | Alistair Sinclair |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cryptographer |
| Sub-discipline | Blockchain |
| Institutions | Cornell Tech,Chainlink (blockchain oracle) |
Ari Juels is an American Cryptographer. He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 at University of California,Berkeley under the supervision of Alistair Sinclair. [1] As of 2025 [update] ,he is currently the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Professor at Cornell Tech,the chief scientist at Chainlink Labs,and the co-director at the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts. [2] [3]
In a 1999 paper with Markus Jakobsson,the researchers coined the term Proof of work. [4] Juels proposed the Fuzzy Vault cryptographic construction in a paper with Madhu Sudan in 2006. [5] Juels was an employee of RSA Security from 1996 until 2013,with the title chief scientist starting in 2007 [6] On January 20,2022,Juels testified before the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the Environmental impact of the cryptocurrency industry. [3] He has published two cryptography thriller novels. [7] [8]