Muneeb Ali

Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. Muneeb is a co-founder of Blockstack, a crytocurrency project for decentralized applications. He serves as the CEO of Blockstack PBC, a New York City-based technology startup that is building core protocols and developer tools for the Stacks cryptocurrency. He is known for the first SEC-qualified offering for a cryptocurrency[1][2] and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Blockstack project.[3] Muneeb is a main character in George Gilder's book Life After Google,[4] was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.

Muneeb Ali
NationalityUnited States, Pakistan
EducationPrinceton University (PhD)
Known forBlockstack, Protothread
Scientific career
FieldsDistributed Computing
ThesisTrust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet (2017)

Career

Muneeb studied Computer Science at LUMS[5] and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017.[6] Muneeb co-founded Blockstack in 2013 with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.[7] His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing.[8] He serves as the CEO of Blockstack PBC.[9]

gollark: Maybe you should be clearer about what you're actually trying to filter? And have separate things for each criterion?EDIT: and explicitly making a high-effort filter is possibly not good as it may drive away people who are busy who you'd otherwise like, although if it's just "compile some C" it's probably fine.
gollark: I should reuse and actually finish the thing I was going to port my "IQ test" to.
gollark: What an *excellent* idea.
gollark: I have seen many older people just dump all their files on their desktop too.
gollark: It isn't; mobile OSes abstract it a lot, cloud storage kind of lacks directories or makes them annoying, and basically everything has search now.

References
  1. "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
  3. "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV.
  4. Gilder, George (2018). Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. pp. 159–177. ISBN 9781621575764.
  5. "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.
  6. "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.
  7. "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).
  8. "Google Scholar".
  9. "This Startup Could Sell You Crypto Tokens—With SEC Backing". Wired magazine.


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