OnChainTalks DeFi Seminar
Meet The Team
Lead Organizer
Nir Chemaya
Lead Organizer
Nir Chemaya is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research interests include macroeconomics, blockchain, decentralized finance (Defi), and experimental and behavioral economics.
Before UCSB Santa Barbara, Nir received a BA and MA in Economics from Ben Gurion University.
Dingyue "Kite" Liu
Lead Organizer
Kite Liu is a research scientist at Uniswap Labs. Prior to joining Uniswap Labs, he completed his PhD in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main research interests lie in the fields of Fintech and Behavioral Economics. He’s interested in learning how bounded rationality influences decision making and belief formation, both in real life scenarios and through controlled experiments.
Co-Organizer
Co-organizer
Ben Etedgi
Ben Etedgi is a BSc candidate in Statistics, Data Science and Economics at Ben Gurion University and a Project manager at BlockchainB7.
Alumni
Elia Ching
Alumni
Jonas Chen
Alumni
Eric Liu
Alumni
Alice Xu
Alumni
Amy Cao
Alumni
Diana Malashenkova
Alumni
Partners
Ally
UCSB Department of Economics
Ben Gurion University
Department of Economics
Foundations of Financial Technology Lab
UCSB Department of Computer Science
BlockchainB7 Association
Past Sponsors
Uniswap Foundation