Alberto Sonnino
Mysten Labs & University College London
About the speaker
Alberto Sonnino is a research scientist at Mysten Labs working on the Sui blockchain. I am also affiliated with the computer science department of University College London (UCL). His research interests are in distributed systems, blockchains, and privacy enhancing technologies. These days he mostly work on Byzantine fault tolerant systems for blockchain applications including consensus protocols, consensus-less (broadcast-based) algorithms, and distributed execution engines. He spend most of his time developing new algorithm to produce more performant distributed systems. A key aspect of his work is to leverage all the resources available to the machine and scale blockchain validators to run on multiple machines. The typical goal of his projects is to go beyond the research stage, I spend considerable effort to implement and evaluate systems to ultimately run them in production.