Careers

He is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches and develops the curriculum for fintech, blockchain, and AI governance and ethics. He is also the Co-Director of NUS Fintech lab where he fosters collaborations between industry and academia to nurture a knowledge ecosystem. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from NYU Stern, a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in Chemical Engineering from Berkeley.

A CTO-in-residence at UCL School of Management and a founding partner of The Building Blocks, former Lead Technologist for Innovation Entrepreneurship at UCL Engineering. With a background as a Software Engineer, CTO, and consultant for startups, he teaches the IMB programme and M.Sc. in Business Analytics at UCL. Niall is involved with the UCL Institute for Communications and Connected Systems, works on EU projects focused on 5G innovation, and has advised the UK government on related topics. He also delivers workshops on the UCL Blockchain Executive Education course run in conjunction with UCL CBT.

Leads transformative projects at UCL, using documentary and ethnographic film to enhance the relationship between UCL and the London community since 2008. He founded Open City Docs Fest, London’s Global Documentary Festival, and created the MyStreet collaborative anthropology site to broaden access and engagement. He raised £0.75 million to support this project. Michael organised the RAI’s 2011 Anthropological Film Festival at UCL and received an AHRC collaborative training award in 2013. Earlier, he had been the SHS Vice-Dean of Enterprise at UCL, pioneering new digital education initiatives.

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London, with a PhD from the University of Cagliari and both MEng and BE degrees from the University of Pisa. Before joining Brunel, Giuseppe was a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at Brunel and the Computer Research Institute of Montreal, where he collaborated with the aerospace industry. His research focuses on mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, Agile methodologies, software metrics, and Blockchain technologies.

An Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty in charge, Advisor and an Associate of the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) at IIT Madras. He earned a Dual Degree from IIT Madras in 2003 and a PhD in Ultrasonic NDE from Imperial College London in 2007. As a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Imperial, he developed advanced computational tools for weld qualification on a Rolls-Royce funded project. Dr. Rajagopal is a Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple sponsored projects and has contributed to over 100 technical articles. He also serves on the editorial board of the ISNT Journal of NDE and actively engages with industry.

A Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Programme Director and Admissions Tutor of the MSc Financial Risk Management at University College London. Prior to joining UCL, he was a Research Associate in the Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, US). Fabio holds a PhD in Statistical Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy).

Founding Partner of The Building Blocks, Co-Founder of Fractal, Mentor and Entrepreneur. A UCL PhD computer scientist with a decade of experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early-stage tech innovation. He was part of the founding teams of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and Wearepopup.com. At UCL, he helped create The Mobile Academy and co-founded the IDEALondon innovation centre in collaboration with Cisco and DC Thomson. Alastair has also mentored at various startup accelerators like Techstars London and Startupbootcamp IoT. Currently, his work focuses on innovation and scale-up support programmes, particularly in areas like 5G, Big Data, and smart cities.

Advisor, Associate Professor and Researcher at UCL. A scholar specialising in the evolution of capitalism, with a focus on how socially contested organisations drive industry renewal. His research, featured in top academic journals and major media like The Economist and Bloomberg, spans topics from global trade to blockchain. JP was the founding director of the Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab at Ivey Business School and is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences. He also advises start-ups on technology innovation and collaborates with established firms and regulators.

A Professor at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and the Programme Director for Finance and Economics at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and AI. At Turing, he leads academic partnerships with organisations like the National Office for Statistics, Accenture, and HSBC. He is the Principal Investigator of the FAIR research programme, focused on responsible AI adoption in financial services, and a co-Investigator at the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI). Lukasz is also affiliated with the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance. His research interests include quantitative finance, machine learning, and multiagent reinforcement learning in Web3.

A Digital Leader specialising in Innovation, Research, and Development within Digital Payments and Currencies at London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science. Thamim has held several product leadership roles in high-growth start-ups. He has collaborated with various public and private financial institutions, developing research programmes, facilitating knowledge transfer, and building commercial roadmaps. His current research focuses on Web 3.0, particularly the impact of blockchain and distributed ledger systems on business processes and governance structures, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and Token Economics, among others.

Tomaso Aste is a professor of complexity science at University College London (UCL), where he is also founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT), head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group, and vice director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Computing & Analytics.

Terence Tse is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School and an affiliate professor at ESCP Business School, a co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech.He is a co-author of two international best sellers on Amazon. He has run seminars and workshops as well as given speeches on technology and digital transformation, megatrends, and topics in finance and economics.He obtained his doctoral degree from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Esposito is Co-Founder at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. He is a Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC in Dubai and to the UC Berkeley SkyDeck incubator and previously inducted in Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He holds prestigious fellowships at UCL as a Policy Fellow, at University of Cambridge as a Senior Associate, and as Senior Fellow for the Digital Impact Alliance from the United Nations Foundation. Harvard Affiliate that is also a member of the World Economic Forum and Professor in several institutions.

Professor of Finance at LSE, she received her Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her academic research focuses on developing macro-finance and asset pricing theories with liquidity implications in environments with information and market frictions and testing their empirical implications. She is currently working on liquidity and financial stability in bank and non-bank financial institutions including DeFi, and developing applied theories of (digital) money and public liquidity.

John Augustine is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, where he co-founded the Blockchain Lab and the Cybersecurity Centre. Previously, he held roles at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre and at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Guy S. Liu is a Professor and Director of the Peking University HSBC Business School (PKU PHBS). He was also previously Head of Department at Brunel Universty and holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Associate Professor at University of Florida, his work has been published by journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and the World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech and a member of the Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research (CBER) Forum. He holds a PhD in Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business, and graduate and undergraduate in Operations Research Engineering from Columbia University and Cornell University.

Claudio J. Tessone is the co-founder and Chairman of the University of Zurich (UZH) Blockchain Center. He is also a Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the UZH Informatics Department, as well as the director of the "Summer School: Deep Dive into Blockchain" and of the Certificate of Advanced Studies on Blockchain at the UZH.

Carsten Sørensen, Ph.D. in computer science, is an Associate Professor in Digital Innovation at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is also the founder of the mobility@lse research unit. He is furthermore a Senior Editor for the Information Systems Journal, as well as an Associate Editor of Journal of the AIS.

Agostino is an Associate Professor in the IEOR Department at Columbia University and Director of the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies. He is a fellow of the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum, and an academic fellow of Alibaba's Luohan academy. He is the former Chair of the SIAG/FME Activity Group and INFORMS Finance Section.