Algorand was founded in 2017 by Silvio Micali, a computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Silvio Micali is one of the world’s foremost authorities on mathematics, computer science and cryptography. He is the founder of Algorand Technologies, the builder of the Algorand blockchain, which today is widely acknowledged to be one of the best performing Layer 1 blockchains ever created.
Silvio has helped pioneer many of the breakthrough technologies that help power blockchain today. He is the co-inventor of probabilistic encryption, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Verifiable Random Functions, and many other innovations that are the foundations of modern cryptography. He holds a total of 47 patents in the fields of random number generation, identification schemes, digital signatures, cryptography, digital certificates, and electronic transactions.
Silvio has been awarded the Turing award for computer science, the Godel Prize for theoretical computer science, and the RSA prize for cryptography.