Jason Teutsch

Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, a scalable verification solution for blockchains. He has held postdoc positions with Prateek Saxena at NUS, Trent Jaeger at Penn State and Wolfgang Merkle at Universität Heidelberg. Previously he has served as a US Fulbright fellow to Israel and to Hungary. From 2008-2010 he held a research staff position at CCR-La Jolla, and before that he worked at the RAND Corporation. He fulfilled his dissertation research as a CIC Traveling Scholar at the University of Chicago computer science department under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. He earned a PhD in mathematics from Indiana University in 2007, a DM in composition from the IU School of Music in 2004, and a BA in guitar performance and mathematics from Pomona College in 2000.