Sourav Das

Sourav Das is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Ling Ren on applied cryptography and consensus algorithms. He received his Bachelor's degree from IIT Delhi, where his "Scaling smart contracts in Proof-of-work Blockchains" won the best undergraduate thesis award in the department. He is also a recipient of the best paper runner's up at ACM CCS 2021. He was a young researcher at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2022 and a Meta Ph.D. fellowship finalist. Previously, he has interned in Visa and Meta research.