Elli Androulaki Research Manager, Industry Platforms & Blockchain IBM Research

Dr. Elli Androulaki is a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Research Manager at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, leading the Decentralised Trust/DLT activities at IBM Research globally.

Elli completed her PhD in the area of applied cryptography aiming to address privacy issues in eCommerce. Her research interests naturally led her to investigating Bitcoin security in 2011, where she co-invented and published the first security attack in Bitcoin. Shortly after joining IBM Research, Elli took on the responsibility for leading the IBM contributions to security and privacy components of Hyperledger Fabric, becoming one of the architects of Hyperledger Fabric. In the most recent years, Elli focused on application-layer, privacy-preserving token exchange, and decentralised identity management in the permissioned DLT setting. During her research years Elli authored a book on "Bitcoin and Blockchain Security'', multiple impactful papers (> 7000 citations) and patents, has served to the program committees of the most prestigious Blockchain conferences, and have been honoured with prestigious IBM awards.