Category Labs
Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye is a senior cryptographer at Category Labs since April 2024 and a PhD researcher at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since September 2017, focusing on biometric template security and privacy preservation during the training stage. Additionally, Babak has served as a graduate teaching assistant and head cryptographer at TripleBlind from October 2020 to May 2024, where responsibilities included designing mathematically enforced cryptographic protocols to maintain data and algorithm privacy. Education includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, a Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
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Category Labs
Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more. We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others. Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.