Abe Othman

Abe Othman's 2012 PhD thesis, Automated Market Making: Theory and Practice provided foundational insights into the discipline of decentralized exchanges. He created the first liquidity-sensitive homogeneous market maker, a key theoretical innovation of current market maker design. As an original advisor to the Augur project --alongside Vitalik Buterin --Abe published op-eds in the Financial Times and TechCrunch on the design of decentralized systems.

Abe has started two companies with successful exits and has invested in thirty early-stage startups. He has received his AB in Applied Math for Harvard and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, where his research was supported by the Google PhD Fellowship.


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