About me

Nicola Greco Photo by Virginia Alonso is an academic entrepreneur working on decentralized systems. He led the protocol design and cryptography research team at Protocol Labs. Previously he was a fellow at the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society and a PhD student at MIT.

He started writing code when he was very young. He was 14 when he started the petition “Linux in Italian Schools”, converting schools to use Open Source Software; 16, started the BuddyPress’ developers community, an open source platform for federated social networks; 18, wrote software for Social Network analysis used by Telecom Italia that awarded him two research grants, for which he gave a TEDx and appeared Italian Wired Top 10 under 25; 21, left his undergraduate program at UCL a year before graduation to join MIT as a PhD student to work on re-decentralizing the Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and to join the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society as a fellow; 23, joined Protocol Labs to run the applied cryptography research team for 8 years, participating in the design of several decentralized protocols widely used today; 27, started deepcrypto, an investment vehicle for early stage cryptography companies.

At 30 he started Public Good Crypto, a research grant organization that supports early stage research in cryptography and decentralized systems; started Quantum Punks a new movement to make quantum technology practical.

Publications

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• Boneh, D., Eskandarian, S., Hanzlik L., Greco, N. Single Secret Leader Election (eprint). 2020.
• Campanelli, M., Fiore, D., Greco, N. Kolonelos, D., Nizzardo, L. Vector Commitment Techniques and Applications to Verifiable Decentralized Storage (eprint). 2020.
• Benet, J., Greco, N. Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network (whitepaper). 2017.
• Smith, E., Greco, N., Bosnjak, M., Vlachos, A. A Strong Lexical Matching Method for the Machine Comprehension Test. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2015.

Events and Conferences

The following are events and conference I gave a presentation at. Want me to give a keynote/unconference? Please contact me at @nicolagreco or via email at me at nicola dot io.

• Quantum Cryptography Acceleration, QuantumPunks @ Devcon7, Bangkok, 2024/11
• Good SNARKS are here needed, Zcon0, Montreal, 2018/06
• What is a Hackathon?, SeedCamp, London, 2014/07
• 10 points Manifesto of a new generation, OrientaGiovani, Confindustria, Rome, 2012/11
• The International Italian, how to expand the borders, WorkingCapital, Rome, 2012/11
• School as a Framework: appeal to the President, iSchool, Rome, 2012/10
• The mathematics of Social Networking Potential, TEDx, Milan, 2012/07
• Presenter: Interviewing Italian successes, Nuovi Mille, Turin, 2011/07
• How to be young in the 2.0, ToscanaLab, Arezzo, 2010/12
• Panel: Communication Week, Milan, 2010/09
• Horizontal, vertical and transversal social concepts, Ignite Italia, Rome, 2010/01
• Under21: Digital Natives, Capitale Digitale, Rome, 2009/11
• The future of New Media, Venice Sessions, Venice, 2009/08
• Turn a blog into a social network, WordCamp, Milan, 2009/05
• Introduction to BuddyPressDEV, WordCamp, Milan, 2009/05
• From blogs to social networks, MateraCamp, Matera, 2009/05
• News, blogs and RSS aggregators, LinuxDay, La Sapienza University, Rome, 2008/10
• Presenting BongoLinux, aggregating Linux Blogs, LinuxDay, La Sapienza University, Rome, 2007/05