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Eli Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: אלי בן-ששון) is an Israeli computer scientist known for his work on zero-knowledge proofs. He is also the co-founder and CEO of StarkWare Industries, and a former professor at Technion.
Career
Ben-Sasson studied theoretical computer science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his PhD in 2001.
In 2014, Ben-Sasson and other researchers collaborated on Zerocash, a design for a private cryptocurrency based on zero-knowledge proofs. Ben-Sasson later became a founding scientist of Zcash, which was based on the Zerocash design.
In 2018, Ben-Sasson and other researchers invented STARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof which has applications in blockchain privacy and scalability. Later that year, Ben-Sasson co-founded StarkWare Industries, which aims to scale blockchains using STARK techniques. Ben-Sasson later became CEO after Uri Kolodny stepped down from the role in 2024.
In April 2019, Technion sued Ben-Sasson along with co-founder Michael Riabzev, alleging that StarkWare Industries was based on intellectual property developed at the university.
The institute demanded 50% of Ben-Sasson's stake in the company. Ben-Sasson maintained that the company merely used employees' knowledge, but no invention belonging to the Technion. In 2020 the two sides reached an agreement and Ben-Sasson left the Technion.