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This post is a part of our Influential People in the Blockchain Space series.
Dr. Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera.
With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs.
He has been the co-founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired.
Leemon received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.
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Watch the video below where Dr. Leemon Baird talks about blockchains and hashgraph at the Distinguished Blockchain Seminar (2019):
