Mia Stein, Ph.D.

CEO at Urani Labs

👾 Fields of Knowledge

1. DeFi → Protocols, Agents, Quantitative Theories, ML/AI
2. Cypherpunks → Security, Privacy, Cryptography, ZKPs
3. Astrophysics → Quantum Field Theories, Group Theory
4. Clean Code → Rust, Python, Solidity, Infra, Algorithms

👾 Education && Past Experience

• Blockchain Researcher && Engineer at Ethereum (grantee), KeeeperDAO, Immunefi 🇩🇪
• Head of Blockchain Engineering at Shopify (and one of the team's six co-founders)
• Senior Software Engineer at Apple (CoreOS team), Etsy (Sec team), Yelp (Sec team)
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of New York (full scholarship) 🇺🇸
• Graduate Researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab and the Brookhaven National Lab
• Undergrad (summer) Research Scholarship at NASA Goddard Space Center and CUA
• BSc in Physics at the University of Sao Paulo (Engineering School, Physics Institute) 🇧🇷
• Midsumm3rDAO Advisor; FilmmakerDAO Founder (dissolved; Generative Story NFT)
• Best High School Project (AI Prognosis) at the International Technology MOSTRATEC
• First website (in mid-school) was fly.to/bytegirl and first Linux dist was Conectiva

👾 Books && Peer-Reviewed Publications && Outreach

• Go Outside Labs was my open-source R&D org for crypto, defi, science problems
• Post-graduate books: Group Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information
• Peer-reviewed scientific publications on Physics, in particular, with LANL and BNL
• Book on Data Structures and Algorithms by Habit, paper on Complex Networks
• Papers on Physics and Computer Science; articles on Linux, Security, Python
• Former blog chmod a+x singularity.sh on cryptography, machine learning, CTFs
• Bonus: 1st Place Solana's DeFi Hackathon and Solana in Berlin, by BTC-ECHO