Dr. Dorit Aviv is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, where she directs the Thermal Architecture Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on energy and ecology.
Aviv leads research on connecting IoT sensors to a blockchain network for energy and environmental monitoring. The network allows for individual-level measurements of energy consumption and environmental performance for opt-in users.
A recipient of a 2020 Holcim Award for Sustainable Design and Construction, Aviv’s current projects also include a combined evaporative and radiative cooling prototype for desert climate, development of radiant cooling for hot-humid climates, and indoor environmental quality control and assessment technologies. Her work has been supported by grants from Microsoft, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Tides Foundation. She has published in leading scientific journals such as *Applied Energy*, *Energy & Buildings*, *Indoor Air*, and* Urban Climate.* She holds a Ph.D from Princeton University in architectural technology.

Masaki Bessho is Head of FinTech Center, Bank of Japan, since September, 2021, after serving as Associate Director-General of Payment and Settlement Systems Department, Deputy Chief Representative for Europe, and Head of Financial Infrastructure Studies Division. He has represented the Bank in a number of digital currency/FinTech related international forums including the group of central banks, and the Bank for International Settlements, to explore CBDC. He received an LL.M. from the University of Virginia (1999) and an LL.B. from Kyoto University (1994). He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Ginestra Bianconi is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London and she is Alan Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.
Currently she is Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports, and Entropy. In 2020 she was awarded the Network Science Fellowships by the NetSci Society.
Ginestra Bianconi is a network scientist and mathematical physicist, known for her work on statistical mechanics, network theory, multilayer and higher-order networks, and in particular for the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She is the author of the book *Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function *by Oxford University Press and *Higher-order networks: An introduction to Simplicial Complexes* by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor in the computer science department at Purdue University. He is an applied cryptographer and a privacy researcher. His research builds on and expands applied cryptography, distributed computing, and data-driven analysis to solve security/privacy problems in decentralized environments.
He is currently on a research leave from Purdue and working as a Chief Research Officer at Supra Oracles (a blockchain startup).
His current projects focus on developing scalable solutions for blockchain and inter-blockchain communication.

Naoki Masuda received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Tokyo. He worked as Lecturer and then Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, between 2006 and 2014. Then, he worked as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Bristol, UK, between 2014 and 2019. He moved to Department of Mathematics at University at Buffalo in 2019 as Associate Professor and promoted to full Professor in September 2021. His research interests include network science and mathematical biology.
In network science, he is particularly known for his work on temporal networks, models of epidemic processes, and random walks on networks.

Hitoshi Okada is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). He got his Bachelor of Public Law (LL.B.) and Bachelor of Private Law (LL.B.) from the University of Tokyo. He got his Ph.D. from Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University. He was a chair of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology Japan Chapter (SSIT-J). He is a Board member of the Japan Society for Information and Management (JSIM). He is a member of the Japan Domestic Committee of ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies.

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Professor Claudio J. Tessone heads the Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies group at the University of Zurich (UZH). He is also co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center.
He studies blockchains as a paradigm of socio-economic complexity: linking microscopic agent behaviour, incentives (placed on purpose or inadvertently) and interactions with their emergent properties. The main pillars of his research include: consensus analysis and modelling (looking at the quality of consensus achieved in real-world situations, the effects of incentives and inequality effects of reward distribution), cryptoeconomics inequality, centralisation, asset circulation and hoarding), large-scale blockchain analytics and forensics, design of token-based economies.

Tomoyuki Shirai is a Professor in the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI) at Kyushu University.
After receiving his PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Tokyo in 1996, he was an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, an associate professor at Kanazawa University, and associate professor and professor at Faculty of Mathematics in Kyushu University, and joined IMI in 2011 when it was launched.
His research interests covers various areas of probability theory, stochastic processes and their applications, including a foundation of determinantal/permanental point processes, random analytic functions, random walks and discrete spectral geometry on graphs, application of Ginibre point process to wireless networks, persistent homology from the probabilistic point of view.
He received the 2016 Outstanding Paper Prize in JMSJ (the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan). He is a member of the MSJ and serves on the editorial boards for JMSJ and International Journal of Mathematics for Industry.