Alin Tomescu
Alin Tomescu is the Head of Cryptography and a founding team member at Aptos Labs, where he has led work on instant on-chain randomness and Aptos Keyless, a system that lets users control blockchain accounts through familiar logins like Google rather than seed phrases. Born in Romania, he earned his cryptography PhD at MIT under Srinivas Devadas and then worked as a postdoc and research scientist at VMware Research on authenticated data structures and anonymous payments. His research output includes the aggregatable subvector commitments paper co-authored with Vitalik Buterin, Ittai Abraham, and others.
6 talks by Alin Tomescu
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Keyless Blockchain Accounts
- ZK11: Aptos Keyless: Blockchain Accounts without Secret Keys - Alin Tomescu
- Episode 316 - Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-Chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts
- ZK Podcast: Stateless validation with Alin Tomescu
- zkStudyClub: Alin Tomescu on authenticated dictionaries and cross-incremental proof (dis)aggregation
- zkStudyClub: Aggregatable Subvector Commitments with Alin Tomescu (VMWare Research)