Sreeram Kannan

Sreeram Kannan is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley and a visiting postdoc at Stanford between 2012-2014 before which he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is a 2021 National-Academy-of-Engineering Frontiers-of-engineering speaker at the US-Japan bilateral meet, a recipient of the 2019 UW ECE outstanding teaching award, 2017 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award, the 2013 Van Valkenburg outstanding dissertation award from UIUC, a co-recipient of the 2010 Qualcomm Cognitive Radio Contest first prize, a recipient of 2010 Qualcomm (CTO) Roberto Padovani outstanding intern award, a recipient of the SVC Aiya medal from the Indian Institute of Science, 2008, and a recipient of Intel India Student Research Contest first prize, 2006. His research interests include information theory, blockchains and computational biology.

Soubhik Deb

Soubhik (pronounced as Shaw-bik) is a third year Ph.D. student at the UW Blockchain Lab. His goal is to design, develop and deploy systems that are based on Web3.0, in order to push for democratization of trust, data and control in digital platforms. He was previously an industrial researcher at NEC Corporation, Japan, working on 5G technology. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with a Dual Degree (Bachelors and Masters) in Electrical Engineering.

In his free time, he prefers reading books, powerlifting (PR: benchpress - 100 kgs, squats - 130 kgs, deadlift - 160 kgs), running 10k (PR: 43 mins 47 secs) and cycling.

Bowen Xue

Bowen Xue is currently a PhD student at the UW Blockchain Lab. He graduated with a Masters from Electrical Engineering at UW. His research interests are in blockchain technology and computational biology. He previously worked on 802.11 MAC layer implementation on software defined radio and image segmentation for computer vision. He likes Classical music and reads novels and poetry.

Gautham Anant

Freshman at Allen School of CS working on blockchain development and system design.

Robert Raynor

Robert is a former Air Force officer with a background in applied physics who has been pursuing a deep interest in modern machine learning. His research is at the intersection of data-centric AI, the economics of data, and causality. He is currently investigating how concepts from causality can be used to learn robust, deep models and representations---and how causal learning can benefit from actively guided data acquisition. Robert is also a runner, a parent, and a hobbyist web-developer who may one day finish his language-immersion app.

Viswa Virinchi Muppirala

Viswa's interests lie in Blockchain, Chemical Reaction Networks, Quantitative Biology, Probability and Statistics. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.

Nishant Relan

Nishant is interested in Machine Learning. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelors in Mathematics of Computation.