The team

Researchers

Six researchers working across machine learning, generative modeling, cryptography, and distributed systems.

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PhDs on the team
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Researchers

Dr. Amara Osei

Founding Director

Decentralized ML Systems

Amara founded Vaultmind after a decade
building distributed training infrastructure.
She works on the question of how machine
learning systems can stay useful when no
single party controls them.

LeadershipDistributed Systems

Dr. Amara Osei

Founding Director

Decentralized ML Systems

Amara founded Vaultmind after a decade
building distributed training infrastructure.
She works on the question of how machine
learning systems can stay useful when no
single party controls them.

LeadershipDistributed Systems

Dr. Wei Chen

Lead, Generative Models

Diffusion & Multimodal Generation

Wei leads our generative modeling group,
with a focus on multimodal diffusion
architectures and the compute economics of
training frontier-scale models responsibly.

LeadershipDistributed Systems

Ravi Kapoor

Research Engineer

Consensus Protocols

Ravi designs the consensus layer
underneath our on-chain systems,
translating theoretical protocol work into
implementations that survive real network
conditions.

LeadershipDistributed Systems

Dr. Lena Fischer

Cryptography Lead

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Lena works on making zero-knowledge
proof systems fast enough to verify real
neural network inference on-chain — the
cryptographic backbone of our Ledgermind
project.

ZK-ProofsCryptographyPhD ETH Zürich

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We take on a small number of visiting researchers and collaborators each year across AI, generative models, and blockchain.

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