Harry Halpin is CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, building a working real-world mixnet. He is also a visiting professor at American University of Beirut, where he teaches cryptocurrency in the midst of a hyperinflationary crisis. Before founding Nym, he was a Senior Research Scientist at CSAIL and IDSS in MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, and quit W3C/MIT over their backing of DRM.