About Me

I follow my own curiosity, which has so far led me to exciting opportunities. I was fortunate to lead the development of several start-up companies. Most recently, I was the Chief-Technology-Officer of Athena Wisdom (now Endor), an MIT spin-off focused on network analysis research and Big Data. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, where my senior thesis was selected as the best undergraduate project.

Today, I’m a dedicated Bitcoin evangelist. As part of my ongoing work on blockchain applications, I’m developing a technology that enables secure (privacy-preserving) cloud computing at scale (see: http://enigma.media.mit.edu). Ultimately, this platform would allow researchers, companies and governments to make use of our data without ever directly accessing them in their raw form. I'm also teaching MAS.S65 - Blockchain Technologies: Decentralize all the Things this fall, which is the first engineering class about Bitcoin/Blockchain and cryptocurrencies at MIT.

Other research projects include applications of machine learning and network analysis on complex systems. For example, how do trends form and evolve in networks? What can we infer from our social interaction patterns as measured by mobile and wearable devices?

icon PUBLICATIONS

  • Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy
    G. Zyskind, O. Nathan, A. Pentland, arXiv (whitepaper), 2015. (PDF)
  • Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data
    G. Zyskind, O. Nathan, A. Pentland, IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, 2015. (PDF), (Slides)
  • Campaign Optimization through Mobility Network Analysis
    Y. Altshuler, E. Shmueli, G. Zyskind, O. Lederman, N. Oliver, A. Pentland, Geo-Intelligence and Visualization through Big Data Trends, Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) Book Series, 2015.
  • Campaign Optimization through Behavioral Modeling and Mobile Network Analysis
    Y. Altshuler, E. Shmueli, G. Zyskind, O. Lederman, N. Oliver, A. Pentland, IEEE Trans. Computational Social Systems, 2014 (PDF)


icon CONFERENCES

  • On the complementary roles of face-to-face and mediated social interactions
    G. Zyskind, B. Lepri, A. Pentland, E. Shmueli, International Conference on Computational Social Science (Oral), 2015. (PDF), (Slides)
  • On the complementary roles of face-to-face and mediated social interactions
    G. Zyskind, B. Lepri, A. Pentland, E. Shmueli, NetMob (Oral), 2015 (PDF), (Slides)
  • Campaign Optimization through Behavioral Modeling and Mobile Network Analysis
    Y. Altshuler, E. Shmueli, G. Zyskind, O. Lederman, N. Oliver, A. Pentland, NetMob (Poster), 2015.


icon INFORMAL & WORK-IN-PROGRESS

  • Digital Democracy, Research@ML, MIT, 2015
  • Secure Computation in Big Data, MIT Annual Big Data Meeting, 2014 (Poster)
  • Disruption, big banks and VCs - crypto currencies, Sibos, 2014

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