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Barath Kumar GaneshKumar

I am a Cryptography Engineer at Nexus. I am super intereseted in Algorithms, Cryptography, Game Theory and Blockchains.

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About Me

I am a Cryptography Engineer at Nexus Laboratories Inc. working as a part of the zkVM team.

Until recently, I was a MS CS student at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, specialising in Algorithms and Cryptography.


I was a Software Development Engineer Intern working in Full-Stack Development at Amazon, prior to my masters. I also used to work as a Project Intern at Samsung Research Institute, alongside their IoT team.


My previous research includes analysing, optimising, and enhancing security in ML models. Recently, I have been implementing and optimising various protocols, accumulation schemes in specific, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Benedikt Bunz. I am currently working with researchers at Brooklyn Application, Architecture and Hardware Lab in optimising the variants of zero-check protocol for hardware accelerators. I am looking forward to collaborating with fellow researchers and developers who strive to make blockchains more efficient, accessible and cheap.


Apart from cryptography for blockchains, I also research on Spectral Graph Theory and Computational Complexity Theory, specifically on doubly efficient interactive proof systems.


I am an extremely loyal Real Madrid fan and mostly watch Football(Soccer), Formula1 or play eSports during my leisure time. I was also an active Competitive Programmer (in the pre-LeetCode era) mostly competing in CodeChef, CodeForces and Hackerrank.