Dr. Leonardo Bautista-Gomez is the founder and research leader of MigaLabs and a Core researcher of Ethereum. He has been collaborating with the EF for over seven years and has received multiple research grants from the EF, and other institutions. He has over a decade of research experience in supercomputers, deep learning and blockchain technology. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and has received multiple international academic awards such as the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing and the ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellow. He did his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and his Master's at the Pierre & Marie Curie Paris 6 University.