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Machine-learning research at Mila, Université de Montréal, with Yoshua Bengio: the MILABot chatbot, ChatPainter and Fraternal Dropout, and a contributor to Theano (671 citations). Brings market experience as co-founder of Bitwyre, a crypto spot and derivatives exchange whose trading engine and architecture he built (since 2019), and of Systematic Trading Group, a proprietary trading firm (2025). Co-founded Grokvideo, a text-to-video search engine in Montreal (2018–22, since acquired), sold two further companies in 2025, and has invested in KAST and Parts Order. At Rand he writes the code: every commit in the node, circuits, wallets and bridge.

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Cryptographer and security researcher with 20+ years of experience in cryptography, distributed systems and blockchain. An early member of the Ethereum Swarm team and reviewer of the Swarm Orange Paper, he later co-founded Panther Protocol, serving as CTO and Chief Scientist, and was principal architect at Boson Protocol. Anish has advised Ripple and Ocean Protocol and has published and lectured extensively on zero-knowledge proofs, privacy, blockchain security and cryptographic protocols, including research in the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive and academic work on privacy and security.

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