Howard Wu

Howard Wu is the founder of Aleo and CEO of Provable, an Aleo Labs company focused on developing products for compliant, confidential payments and creating tools for developers to deploy and manage applications on the Aleo blockchain.

His notable contributions to the fields of zero-knowledge proofs and elliptic-curve cryptography, including Zexe and DIZK, have been adopted by protocols such as Ethereum, Zcash, and Aleo. Howard graduated from UC Berkeley with a research background in cryptography, computer security, and verifiable computing. He is also a co-founder of Aleo, a layer-1 blockchain that combines general-purpose programmability with the power of zero-knowledge (zk) proofs.