Maryam Bahrani

I'm a theoretical computer scientist focusing on mechanism design and incentives in blockchains.

I am currently mechanism design researcher at ritual. Prior to that, I was a member of a16z crypto research, where I split my time between academic research and collaboration with portfolio companies. Previously, I was a member of the theory group at Columbia advised by Prof. Tim Roughgarden. I did my undergrad in computer science with an applied math minor at Princeton, where I worked with Prof. Matt Weinberg on algorithmic game theory and social networks, as well as Dr. Jérémie Lumbroso on Analytic combinatorics and graph theory. After undergrad, I spent a year working as a quantitative trader at Jane Street.