Milap Sheth

Milap Sheth has worked in the software engineering and development field since 2016. In 2016, they were a Software Engineer Intern at DarkMatter LLC, where they implemented a resilient security library for messaging and voice/video calls on Android/iOS and exposed and fixed critical security vulnerabilities in the protocol. Milap also worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo, where they designed tight approximation algorithms for drawing Halin graphs with small pathwidth. In 2017, they were a Security Developer at ISARA Corporation, where they studied state-of-the-art quantum-safe cryptosystems, independently implemented cryptographic algorithms, and proposed various optimizations. That same year, they were a Software Engineer Intern at DarkMatter LLC, where they implemented a resilient security library for email communications on Android/iOS and invented a key exchange mechanism which was filed for a patent application. In 2018, they were an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Université de Montréal, where they investigated state-of-the-art quantum-safe signature schemes based on multi-party computation, lattices, and isogenies. Milap also worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Quantum Computing, where they investigated decoding techniques for surface codes to build fault-tolerant quantum computers. In 2019, they were a Software Developer at ISARA Corporation and a Research Intern - Quantum Computing at Microsoft. Currently, they are a Software Engineer at Axelar, where they are responsible for security, design, and implementation of cross-chain interoperability protocols, spanning consensus and smart contracts. Milap has also developed a threshold ECDSA signing library in Rust.

Milap Sheth attended the University of Waterloo from 2014 to 2019, where they earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization.