CORE CONTRIBUTORS & ADVISORS

World-Class Research & Engineering

Combining academic rigor from MIT, ETH Zürich, and Stanford with deep engineering execution from DeepMind and Ethereum Foundation.

Kevin Yoshinaga

Co-Founder & Chief Architect

Co-Founder of ICM

Kevin has experience in a number of industries and fields, including technology, mathematics, financial modeling, finance and venture capital. Kevin is a co-founder of ICM.

Alex Crawford

NAN Chief Commercial Officer

Commercial Director, VaultEX Cash Business (Eurasia)

With over 20 years of experience in the cash industry, he possesses a comprehensive perspective as Commercial Director. He is responsible for strengthening and expanding the project client base. He has a deep understanding of our business, is committed to building trustworthy partnerships, and prioritizes innovation for clients.

Dr. Alexander V. Thorne

Co-Founder & Chief Architect

Ex-DeepMind AI Senior Researcher / Ph.D. MIT

Dr. Alexander V. Thorne is a pioneering computer scientist specializing in verifiable artificial intelligence and zero-knowledge neural execution. Prior to co-founding Nexus Agent Network, he served as a Senior AI Researcher at Google DeepMind, where he led research on model compression and deterministic inference runtimes. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, where his doctoral dissertation focused on cryptographic proof systems for non-deterministic algorithms.

Urmila Mahadev

NAN Chief Technology Advisor

Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Nickerson Scholar

B.S., University of Southern California, 2010; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2018. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2019-20; Assistant Professor, 2020-; Nickerson Scholar, 2021-.