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Emin Gün Sirer is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, in addition to being a cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Together with two graduate students at the school, Sirer founded Ava Labs in 2018 and led the research that led to the creation of the Avalanche blockchain and its native cryptocurrency called AVAX.
The presentation below, given by Emin Gün Sirer in 2020 in preparation for the release of the Avalanche blockchain by Ava Labs, explains the benefits of the technologies used and developed specifically for the Avalanche system.