Dani Vilardell

Born and in love with Barcelona.

Lived a year in Lyon, Houston, Berkeley and will start now living in New York City.

Fluent at Catalan, Spanish, English and speak quite a bit of French.

Currently a PhD student at Cornell Tech in Ari Juel's team

Mathematician and Electrical Engineer graduate from UPC.

Spent a year as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley working in Dawn Song's team on ZKP

Got a scholarship for both majors since I am in a high performance center.

This scholarship, along with the RDI Frontier Research Fellowship covered my stay at UC Berkeley.

Love working in many random personla projects both alone or with a team.

Spend time on improving my competitive programming skills.

Spend any free time writing code and working on personal projects.

Worked as a Software Engineer at HappyScribe in summer 2021, great company with great people.

Joined Cognite during summer 2022 as a Software Enginner, loved spending a summer in Norway!

Improved my cryptography research skills as a research intern at Oasis Labs.

Love reading epic fantasy books, currently reading Era 2 of the Mistborn series.

Played in a jazz band back when I was in Houston.

Also performed in a Rock band and a Ska band.

Runner, biker, swimmer, sailor and climber though I like almost any sport there is.

Big Fourier, Shannon and Beethoven fan.

Fond of travelling to big cities or beautiful beaches where I can kitesurf.

Loved playing piano since a very young age and still do.

Planning on living a shaken life.

I have a more detailed resume if you're into that sort of thing.