Wei Dai researches and invests in financial and security infrastructure at 1kx, spanning AI, blockchain, and frontier technologies. He previously led investments at Bain Capital Crypto and holds a PhD in computer science focused on cryptography.

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Wei Dai researches and invests in financial and security infrastructure at 1kx, spanning AI, blockchain, and frontier technologies. He previously led investments at Bain Capital Crypto and holds a PhD in computer science focused on cryptography.

Career

Wei Dai studied at University of California, San Diego (PhD, Computer Science (cryptography), 2021) and University of California, Santa Barbara (MS, Computer Science, 2016 and BS, Computer Science; BS, Mathematics, 2015).

Research Partner at 1kx until Present
Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at University of California, San Diego from 2016-06 to 2021-06
Research Intern at University of Washington from 2019-06 to 2019-09
Research Intern at Visa Research from 2018-06 to 2018-09

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Security and Trust: The Bottleneck of Deploying Agentic AI

A framework for agent security spanning observation, enforcement, evaluation, and governance.

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On Trust Minimization and Horizontal Scaling

His analysis of the tradeoffs between Ethereum security, data availability and scaling through parallel systems.

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Navigating Privacy on Public Blockchains

A framework for anonymity and confidentiality, comparing zero-knowledge proofs with encrypted computation on public blockchains.

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