Maryam Bahrani

Maryam Bahrani is researcher at a16z crypto, where she split her time between academic research and collaboration with portfolio companies.

I'm a theoretical computer scientist focusing on mechanism design and incentives in blockchains.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the theory group at Columbia advised by Prof. Tim Roughgarden. I did my undergrad in computer science with an applied math minor at Princeton, where I worked with Prof. Matt Weinberg on algorithmic game theory and social networks, as well as Dr. Jérémie Lumbroso on Analytic combinatorics and graph theory. After undergrad, I spent a year working as a quantitative trader at Jane Street.