The team
behind the software

Dr. Sadegh Riazi is a technology enthusiast, currently co-founder and CEO of Pyte Labs. He received his Ph.D. in secure computation from UC San Diego where he was awarded the best Ph.D. thesis award. Sadegh founded Project HEAX at Microsoft Research (a new computing platform for Homomorphic Encryption). Prior to that, he studied Electrical Engineering and designed a new system for Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Dr. Ilya Razenshteyn is a co-founder and CTO of Pyte Labs. Ilya received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT with an award-winning thesis working on algorithms and theoretical computer science. Since then, he spent a few years at Microsoft Research as a Senior Researcher at the Machine Learning and Optimization group.

Fari Assaderaghi is co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor of CipherMode Labs. He’s also Executive Vice President of Engineering at SiTime, a NASDAQ-listed company. Dr. Assaderaghi recieved his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1992 and 1994, respectively.Fari has held senior leadership positions at both start-up and large technology companies, including VP of Advanced Technology at TDK-InvenSense and CTO, IoT, and Security at NXP.

Entrepreneurial experience in building, scaling, and managing digital technology businesses of significant scope. Demonstrable history of consistently setting and achieving tough financial and organizational objectives in an accelerated timeframe.

Ilya has worked in software engineering for 10+ years. Prior to Pyte, he led a team at Google Search ranking, giving exposure to modern Machine Learning and data science, and software engineering. During university life, Ilya was an active member of the competitive programming community (winning a gold medal at the ICPC finals, and achieving high results at many of the other competitions).

Abhishek Mathur is the VP Product at Pyte, where he drives the vision, strategy, and execution of the product. He is a startup veteran, where he has helped numerous companies build their initial product, and then drove adoption for those products. Abhishek has previously led product teams in developing MLOps, Responsible AI, NLP (conversational AI), Computer Vision, and Internet of Things platforms. He enjoys teaching product management foundations to aspiring PMs, and is a web3 enthusiast.

Ilia is a cryptographer and a research engineer at CipherMode Labs. He has been working for 7 years on secure computation protocols including homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation. Ilia published multiple research papers presented at major cryptographic conferences such as Eurocrypt, CHES, and ACM CCS. In 2018 and 2019, Ilia was an intern at Microsoft Research working on the SEAL library.

Dr. Javad Seyed Talebi is a research engineer at Pyte Labs. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Irvine. He spent six years developing secure and trustworthy computer systems and published multiple research papers based on them in major systems and security conferences such as USENIX Security and MobiSys. Javad also worked on improving the security and privacy of voice assistants while doing an internship at Microsoft Research in 2018.

Anna Khanova is a software engineer at Pyte Labs. She has been working at Google for more than two years on the natural language understanding projects: Google Assistant and Cloud Conversational AI. During the Bachelor degree at the Ural Federal University, Anna participated in various ICPC competitive programming competitions.

Govind received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2020 advised by Prof. Elchanan Mossel, with a thesis covering topics in theoretical computer science and mathematical models of social phenomena. Previously, he majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley, where he volunteered as a tutor with Eta Kappa Nu. After his Ph.D., he spent two years working on the Runtime team at Neural Magic Inc.

Borys Minaiev, a software engineer from the united kingdom. He has graduated from ITMO university. He has been honored as Google Hash Runnerup in Jan 2021.

Luka Kalinovcic is a software engineer at Pyte Labs. Previously he has been at Google for twelve years, working on Core Search ranking, a Pathfinding system for driving directions in Maps, and ML for code that aims to boost developer productivity. Prior to his professional career, Luka was an active member of the competitive programming community, winning medals at IOI and ICPC, and high results at many other competitions.

Brynn Moynihan has worked as a senior leader in the technology sector at public and private companies. She has a proven track record of innovating, launching, and rapidly scaling user adoption, revenue, and company valuations. Brynn has had the privilege of managing hundreds of team members across strategy, operations, product, and go-to-market divisions at such organizations at

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