Neha Narula | Director
Neha Narula is the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative, a part of the MIT Media Lab focusing on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. While completing a PhD in computer science at MIT, she built fast, scalable distributed systems and databases. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Blockchain and has given a TED talk on the Future of Money.
In a previous life, Neha helped relaunch the news aggregator Digg and was a senior software engineer at Google. There, she designed Blobstore, a system for storing and serving petabytes of immutable data, and worked on Native Client, a way to run native code securely through a browser.
Personal page: http://nehanarula.org
In July 2023, Neha joined the Board of Directors at Block.
Projects
Designing Payment Tokens For Safety, Integrity, Interoperability, and Usability
Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing Smart Contracts (PArSEC)
Mitigating Undercutting Attacks: A Study on Mining and Transaction Fee Behavior - Student Thesis
Improving Bitcoin-Core’s Kitchen Sink Random Number Generator
Beware the Weak Sentinel: Making OpenCBDC Auditable without Compromising Privacy
Privacy Preserving Designs for CBDCs with Deutsche Bundesbank
b_verify: Scalable Non-Equivocation for Verifiable Management of Data - Student Thesis
CBDC: Expanding Financial Inclusion or Deepening the Divide?
ClockWork: An Exchange Protocol for Proofs of Non Front-Running
Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency
Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems
Going from bad to worse: from Internet voting to blockchain voting
The Decentralized Web: Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future?
The Future of Our Money - Centering Users in the Design of Digital Currency
The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Finance: A Catalyst for Change