Eli is a co-founder and CEO of StarkWare and Chairman of its Board of Directors.

He has been researching cryptographic and zero-knowledge proofs of computational integrity ever since he received his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the Hebrew University in 2001. Eli is a co-inventor of the STARK, FRI, and Zerocash protocols and a Founding Scientist of the Zcash Company. Over the years, he held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT, and, most recently, was a Professor of CS at Technion, which he left to co-found StarkWare.