Vincent Gramoli

Vincent Gramoli is the Founder and CTO of Redbelly Network and the Head of the Concurrent Systems Research Group at the University of Sydney. He received the Digital National Facilities & Collections Award from CSIRO, the Best Paper Awards at ICDCS’21, IPDPS’22, ICDCS’22 and DSN’24, the Education Leader of the Year Award from Blockchain Australia, and the Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. In the past, Gramoli has been affiliated with INRIA, Cornell, CSIRO and EPFL.

Vincent acts as a Director at Redbelly Network. In the past, Vincent acted as the Chair of the Cybersecurity Committee for CORE, the Chair of the Blockchain Technical Committee for the ACS, the Chair of the Program Committee of international scientific conferences, and a Blockchain expert for central and commercial banks.

His expertise is in distributed computing and security. With his lab, he found and reported security vulnerabilities in Ethereum in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021. As an alternative, they proposed the Redbelly Blockchain that offers quasi-instant finality, is Solidity compatible and scales to large networks. They designed a realistic open source blockchain benchmark suite, called Diablo. Vincent teaches Distributed Systems at the University of Sydney, the Coursera Blockchain Scalability MOOC and published the textbook with Springer.