SAF Education Grantee: Aparna Krishnan

Social Alpha Foundation is proud to introduce our Education Grantee, Aparna Krishnan Aparna Krishnan , co-head of Education from Blockchain at Berkeley (https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/), a 2018 Thiel Fellowship and Social Alpha Foundation grantee, a co-founder of open-source blockchain research lab Mechanism Labs

From April 25–28, Aparna paid Hong Kong a visit and presented a series of lectures and workshops targeting faculty and students of various Universities as well as the Hong Kong Blockchain community at large. The goal of this Education Grant is to cultivate advanced Blockchain skill sets and thought leadership and establish a meaningful partnership between the Berkeley and Hong Kong Blockchain communities.

Memory sharing:

Day 1: Teaching Crypto-economic and Blockchain Research

Day 2: Visit HKU and HKUST campus to meet with student community and share experiences of B@B

Day 2: Visit HKU and HKUST campus to meet with student community and share experiences of B@B

Day 3: Ethereum Meetup HK event , 208 people attended for Aparna’s Crypto-economic class :)

With SAF co-Founder Jehan Chu and Nydia Zhang

Charles D’HAUSSY, head of Fintech from InvestHK giving opening remark

Grant completion date: April 29, 2018

Aparna’s latests :)

A Convo with Aparna Krishnan, Rising Blockchain Thought Leader

Mechanism Labs

Breaking the codes