Our Story

The Nesa Team

Our Mission

Nesa is putting AI on-chain for our future. With AI on-chain, for the first time its performance can be legitimately tracked, verified and shared by all, and its output can be easily monitored, evaluated, and controlled.

People, companies, and the world need AI that is open and decentralized. Nesa merges privacy, security, verification and consensus via a proprietary end-to-end system that is simple to integrate into and lightning fast to query from. Nesa is the world's answer as AI grows ever ubiquitous in all of our lives.

Nesa means miracle. Our name is a tribute to the golden age of AI that we are living in. The logo of NES token is symbolic of the miracles that trusted AI will deliver for humanity, and a reminder of how advanced technology is truly indistinguishable to magic.

About Nesa

Nesa was created when a group of friends were working on a project that was using the industry's top centralized LLM to run their queries. Each day, this best-in-class black box LLM was performing differently for the very same prompt. Over time it seemed to be regressing. It was positively vexing!

There was no visibility into why its performance was inconsistent, no one to talk to, and no freedom or real control with this centralized model. The friends were powerless and at its mercy. This was impacting their research, their time, and their business. And so together they recruited a world class engineering team and built the first decentralized, open, trustless AI network to solve this problem.

Award winning AI research

Alan Turing
NeurIPS
NeurIPS
CVPR
Google
Meta
Google
ICML
IEEE
Area Chair
ICLR
Norton
Github
WiSE Merit
ACM CCS
Embassy
Baidu
Nature Science
MIT EECS
AAAI
MIT-Takeda
Wold AI WAICO

Leadership Team

Real AI meets cryptography. The Nesa leadership team is a hybrid of research-oriented leaders from both industries.

Dr. Harry Yang

Dr. Harry Yang

Founder

Facebook AI. Creator of Facebook's Sora, called Make-a-Video. Early LLM development work at Meta for Llama. Computer vision and video gen AI expert. Award winning researcher. PhD in AI and MSc in CS, USC.

Dr. Yue Zhao

Dr. Yue Zhao

Chief Scientist

Professor of AI, USC. Creator of PyOD (22 million downloads) the most famous anomaly detection AI used by Tesla, NASA. 20k+ Github stars (top 0.001%). AAAI New Faculty Highlight. Google and Meta AI Research Awards. PhD in AI, Carnegie Mellon.

Dr. Claudio Angione

Dr. Claudio Angione

Chief of Research

Alan Turing Development Award recipient in AI. PhD in CS, University of Cambridge. MSc and BSc in Mathematics. Postdoc AI research, University of Cambridge. Former Microsoft Research Scientist. Professor of AI, Teesside University.

Dr. Marco Di Maggio

Dr. Marco Di Maggio

Founder

Director, Harvard Crypto & Web3 Lab. Former Professor, Harvard Business School. Professor of Finance, Imperial College London. Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research. PhD in Economics, MIT.

Patrick Colangelo

Patrick Colangelo

Founder

Veteran in building technology at scale. Software and hardware development. Harvard grad.

Dr. Yuzhe Yang

Dr. Yuzhe Yang

AI Chief

Forbes 30 under 30. Phd in CS, MIT. Named Rising Star in AI. Research honored to World's 10 Notable Advances, Nature Science. Trustworthy ML expert. BSc in CS, Peking. Baidu PhD scholar. NeurIPS Top Reviewer.

Dr. Hongyang Zhang

Dr. Hongyang Zhang

Chief of Security

One of the fathers of ZKML. Creator of ZKDL. Creator of zkLLM. Creator of EAGLE, the fastest LLM decoder in the world. Creator of RAIN. 1st Place at NeurIPS, 1st Place at CVPR. Professor of AI, UWaterloo.

Alan Boehme

Alan Boehme

Chief of Platform

Former CTO of H&M overseeing 800 million transactions . Former CTO of Procter & Gamble managing 40 multi-billion dollar brands, $83 billion annual revenue. CTO & CIO of Coca Cola.

Fielding Johnston

Fielding Johnston

VP of Engineering

Ex VP eng. 15 years of experience in engineering, blockchain, and machine learning. Langchain framework contributor. Billions of transactions of scale.

Dr. James Buban

Dr. James Buban

Systems Lead

Earliest Meta faster R-CNN engineer. Research Professor of AI, University of Illinois. PhD in Physics, MSc in Mathematics, BSc in Physics. 10 year AI Research Scientist.

Dr. Jennifer Wang

Dr. Jennifer Wang

Security Lead

Named MIT EECS Rising Star. ZK expert. Professor of AI, Purdue. Postdoc research in AI Security and ZK. PhD in CS, USC. ACM Distinguished Paper Award. Winner, WiSE Merit Award.

Ahmad Farhan

Ahmad Farhan

AI Lead

Postponed a PhD in AI to lead Nesa. MSc in AI. BSc in CS. Pakistan's 1 out of 100 National Scholarship Winner. Provincial Benevolent Fund Scholar. Half decade in deep learning.

Dr. Yi Yang

Dr. Yi Yang

Engineering

PhD in CS, GPA 4.0, University of illinois. 20+ journal reviews. Research funding award. BSc with Honors, Tsinghua University. #1 of 90 in Tsinghua class for Physics, #2 of 90 for Math.

Dr. Jason Chen

Dr. Jason Chen

Product

PhD in AI, HKUST. BS in CS, Tsinghua University, Admitted into "Yao Class", the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science at Tsinghua. Research, ACM.

Dr. Elvin Yao

Dr. Elvin Yao

Operations

Lead Researcher, American Parkinson’s Disease Asscociation. PhD & MSc in Applied Psych. Full-stack project operations, overseer of 2 million grants.

Dr. Xiaofan Liu

Dr. Xiaofan Liu

Founding Advisor

Lab for AI-powered Financial Technologies. AIGC Researcher. Professor, City University of Hong Kong. IEEE, AE. PhD in Network Science.

Harvard University
MIT
USC
Tsinghua University
Imperial
University of Cambridge
Microsoft
Facebook
Carnegie Mellon University
Peking University
The Alan Turing Institute
Hong Kong University
ByteDance
Meta

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