Sriram Vishwanath

Sriram Vishwanath received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. Over the past 20 years, he is a Professor in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and recently, a Technical Fellow for Distributed Systems and Machine Learning at MITRE Labs. Sriram’s research is in the domains of blockchain systems, machine learning/AI and information & coding theory. He has over 250 refereed research papers, and multiple research awards. He works across a diverse set of areas and specializes in bringing the gap between theory and practice. In particular, he has been involved in multiple spinouts from The University of Texas (as well as startups independent from The University of Texas). Most recently, he is the President of ChainHub, an incubator in Web3/blockchain domains. He is a co-founder of ZT Spice, which enables flexible, zero-trust, quantum-safe security as a service. He is a co-founder of Symmetry Systems, a company that specializes in intrinsic security solutions for databases, microservices and data-in-motion systems. He is also the co-founder of GenXComm, a company focused on the development of 5G telecommunications systems. He has also co-founded Accordion Health (acquired by Evolent Health), Lynx Laboratories (acquired by Occipital) and M87 Inc (acquired by XCOM). He focuses on research that can be translated to products, and has considerable experience as CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering at startup companies. He has multiple patents and has developed software solutions that are both copyrighted and open sourced. He has taught multiple entrepreneurship classes at The University of Texas, Austin. Sriram received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and the ARO Young Investigator Award in 2008. He was the 2014 UT faculty entrepreneur of the year and was honored in the Reuters list of highly cited researchers in 2014 and 2015. Sriram is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.