MITxH Speaker Series: Decentralized AI Panel

​Join MITxH for our latest speaker series panel on the topic of Decentralized AI!

​Learn more about MITxH here: https://www.mitharvardblockchain.com

​Our panelists are:

​Alexander Long: Alexander is the Founder of Pluralis Research. Pluralis Research was started to implement Protocol Learning - a way to train large models on consumer devices rather than in datacenters. Pluralis recently announced their fundraise from Union Square Ventures, CoinFund, Variant, and others. Alexander was previously an Applied Scientist at Amazon. He received his PhD from UNSW focusing on sample efficient Reinforcement Learning and non-parametric memory in Deep Learning.

​Anna Kazlauskas: Anna is the creator of Vana and CEO of Open Data Labs, building a network for user-owned data. She studied computer science and economics at MIT, where she first got into crypto by mining Ethereum in her dorm room in 2015. After leaving MIT, she founded a YC-backed machine learning company and contributed to Celo. Her research at MIT's CSAIL, the Federal Reserve, and the World Bank shaped her vision of data as the currency of the future.

​Casey Caruso: Casey Caruso is the founder and managing partner of Topology, an engineering-centric frontier tech VC firm. Casey started her career as an engineer at Google and went on to become Bessemer Venture Partners' crypto specialist. She was recruited out of Harvard to join Paradigm as an Investment Partner and is Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee for Venture Capital. Casey holds her B.S. in Computer Engineering, and MS in CS/AI.