TLDR Fellowships
About the Fellows Program
The Fellowship program is for engineers, academics and students who want to shape the future of decentralized finance. As a Fellow, you’ll receive a salary and intellectual support to fully immerse yourself in the world of DeFi while crafting your own unique journey.
Fellowship Details
who we are
Meet the Research Council
At the heart of the TLDR Conference and Fellowship program is our Research Council, composed of thought leaders and DeFi experts, dedicated to guiding fellows in their research journeys.
Sarah Allen
Flashbots, IC3
Governance, DAOs, voting schemes, decentralized identity, all things MEV, and empirical studies and attacks for any of the above
Guillermo Angeris
Head of research at Bain Capital Crypto
optimization, cfmms, probability
Tarun Chitra
Gauntlet, Robot Ventures
Convex Optimization, CFMMs, MEV, Auctions, Spin Glasses
Theo Diamandis
PhD student at MIT and researcher at Bain Capital Crypto
Optimization, Convex Analysis, MEV, CFMMs
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira
Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow
AI, Algorithmic Economics and Security
Assimakis Kattis (Aki)
New York University
zero-knowledge proof design and development, distributed systems, consensus protocols and ZKP mechanism design
Ariah Klages-Mundt
Superluminal Labs
Design and analysis of DeFi mechanisms (including stablecoins, AMMs, oracles, governance systems), modeling economic security, modeling risk and contagion in DeFi protocols
Jason Milionis
Columbia University
decentralized mechanism design, game dynamics, auction design, algorithmic game theory
Raphaela Sapire
Uniswap Foundation
MEV + Oracle research implemented as hooks on Uniswap v4, Flashloan/sandwich auctions, Routers, Incentive Design
Sponsored By
The Uniswap Foundation has committed up to $3,000,000 over the next 3 years to DeFi Research.