UCSB-ECON DeFi Seminar
By Graduate Students, For Graduate Students
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
Jonas Chen
Co-organizer
Jonas Chen is broadly interested in economics, security, and applications as it relates to blockchain and web3. He is currently an undergraduate student and researcher at UC Santa Barbara.
Alice Xu
Co-organizer
Alice Xu is currently an undergraduate student in UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Data Science and Economy. Alice is interested in decentralized finance and wants to apply data science with it for further research.
Diana Malashenkova
Co-organizer
Diana Malashenkova is an undergraduate Economics student at UC Santa Barbara with a strong interest in decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain. She is passionate about exploring how these technologies can revolutionize financial systems and is keen on leveraging marketing to drive adoption of innovative web3 solutions.
Alumni
Elia Ching
Alumni
Eric Liu
Alumni
Amy Cao
Alumni
Partners
Ally
UCSB Department of Economics
Foundations of Financial Technology Lab
UCSB Department of Computer Science
Past Sponsors
Uniswap Foundation