My name is Ray, and I graduated from UC Berkeley BS+MS degree in EECS + Business (Haas) I have been actively involved in blockchain research with publications and projects. My graduate research focuses in reinforcement learning agent for path planning at BAIR advised by Claire J. Tomlin. In the past, I have been a part of Blockchain at Berkeley and have taken/taught courses in DeFi (Song), and DeSys (Crooks).
Connect: X || Github || Farcaster || Mathstodon
Experiences
Robinhood chain (chain infra/tokenization)
Farcaster (acq'26) (backend tokens/feeds)
NEAR DeFi (Research on DEX & Lending merged '24)
Nethermind, NFTPerp, Pontem Network (Aptos) (Research Intern)
An applied AI company (backend model host/inference)
Some option trading firms near the Loop (trader on credit, metal options, commodity futures)
Blog/Articles/Paper
Mar 2026: Why you should work much harder
Feb 2026: WIP: [Binary Option] Binary Strips as Synthetic Spot (Extensions Toward Synthetic Leverage)
Feb 2026: Consensus ~= 20% BFT is sufficient?
May 2024: <██404¿>
Feb 2024: Current State of execution environments coupled with consensus BFTs
Jan 2024: Blackhole Labs: Unlocking Liquidity through a Permissionless Approach to DeFi
Dec 2022: Discretized Liquidity AMM with Limit Orders (DL-AMM) with NEAR
Nov 2022: Not So Stable-coin: An Analysis of the Market and the US Stablecoin Bill with NEAR
May 2022: MS Thesis: Guided Reinforcement Learning for Planning @ Berkeley
Apr 2022: A Privacy Preserving Blockchain Powered Auction Platform @ Berkeley
Dec 2021: OpenSpace: An Improved NFT Marketplace Platform Using Flow @ Berkeley
Projects/Hackathons/Grants
Fellowships
DARPA (gov) Fellow, KP Fellow, Accel Fellow, Greylock Fellow, Draper Fellow, ZFellow and etc... (forgot)