Our Team
Dan Boneh
Faculty Director
Dan Boneh heads the applied cryptography group at the Computer Science department at Stanford University. Professor Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, security for mobile devices, digital copyright protection, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over a hundred publications in the field and a recipient of the Packard Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, and the RSA award in mathematics. Last year Dr. Boneh received the Ishii award for industry education innovation. Professor Boneh received his Ph.D from Princeton University and joined Stanford in 1997.
Atticus Francken
Advisor
Atticus Francken is a native of Illinois and a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful ventures spanning energy, education, and fintech. He co-founded his first venture in college, which still operates today. This includes a depth of work in renewable energy finance and development. In addition, Atticus has deep experience in public policy, serving in roles at the White House and Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He has also served in institutional investment roles, including Ullico and as Vice President at CleanCapital. As a founding member of the lab, he will be working on commercialization of new technologies, partnerships, public policy, and interfacing with central banks and multilateral institutions. Atticus graduated from the George Washington University in Washington, DC with a degree in Economics and Mathematics and is an incoming Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University.
Dylan Olivia Hunzeker
Advisor
Dylan is an investor at Struck Capital Crypto. Prior to Struck, she was an investment analyst at Iconic Holding GmbH, an asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrencies and digital asset strategies based in Frankfurt, Germany. At the firm she specialized in searching for and due diligencing cryptocurrency hedge funds as well as potential venture capital investments. Previously she worked at Eigen Capital, a Beijing-based hedge fund for digital assets where she helped build out the OTC and market making desks by developing a new technology for atomic swaps (among other workstreams). Her research on cryptocurrency (specifically staking networks) has been published in Ledger, Carnegie Mellon’s computer science journal, and by the City University of New York. Dylan received her BA from Columbia College of Columbia University in the City of New York in Human Rights and Comparative Literature and her MBA from Tsinghua University in Beijing where she was a CSC Scholar and a Tsinghua Exemplary Student Scholar on a full scholarship, and where she wrote her thesis on the future of blockchain innovation in both the U.S. and China
Tony Chan
Advisor
Tony Y. Chan the Managing Broker at North American Real Estate Investment group. He is also the Chairman of the City of Redwood City Canyon Neighborhood Association. He is co-founder of Pledge, one of the earliest on-chain gaming platforms. He has started crypto investment since early 2017. Tony also did 21 high tech angel investments which gives 25% return. Tony is the creator of a popular app: “One Chinese a Day”. This app was the #1 paid educational app at the Amazon app store. He was also the founder of Facio software, the redberry company in China. Tony helped the company grow from 0 to US$2mill in sales in 3 years. He and his company were interviewed by Businessweek. In 2003, Tony worked at Rhapsody networks where he was responsible for storage management. This company was acquired by Brocade Communications for US$175MM. Previously, Tony was at Vitalsigns Software, Inc. where he was responsible for Vital Suites, which received a Network World award. This company was later acquired by Lucent Technology for US$128MM. Tony started his career at Microsoft and was part of the Windows 95 development group. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and his Master’s degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from Stanford University.
Jonathan Rufrano
Advisor
Jonathan has close to a decade of experience in public policy and research at the intersection of emerging technology, human rights, and international affairs. His passion is stewarding the development and implementation of emerging technologies responsibly and for the benefit of humankind, and in democratizing access to the promises digital currencies hold. Jonathan is invaluable to FDCI as a digital currency policy subject matter expert and the bridge between international policymakers, technologists, and private sector leaders. He also works with the Global Ecosystem team at Chainalysis to de-risk and demystify digital currencies for regulators, law enforcement agencies, and commercial clients. Prior to joining Stanford, Jonathan worked in the United States Congress and the Texas Legislature. He graduated with Honors in International Relations and Technology Policy at the University of Texas at Austin and holds professional certificates from Harvard, MIT, the Intern-American Development Bank, and Duke Law.