Georgios Vlachos

Georgios Vlachos is the Chief Product Officer at Circle, a co-founder of Axelar, and a founding team member of Algorand, specializing in the design and development of consensus mechanisms. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Silvio Micali. In 2011, he won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, becoming the first Greek student to achieve this honor.