Research at the Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation supports technological and scientific research through its in-house research team and its academic grants program.
Team
SDF Researchers

Giuliano Losa
Distributed computing and formal methods

Iftach Haitner
Cryptography and Computational Complexity

David Mazières
Chief Scientist at the SDF

Patrick Redmond
Research Intern in formal methods for distributed systems assurance

Joseph Tafese
Research Intern in formal verification of Rust code
Research Consultants

Eli Gafni
Theory of distributed computing

Mohsen Lesani
Reliability and security of software systems
Alumni

Yunqi Zhang
Research Intern on overlay networks

George Pîrlea
Research intern in formal methods for smart contracts assurance