Lei Yang

Lei Yang

Captain

Distributed Systems, Consensus, Blockchain Networks

Cohort
Class of 2014
Joined
Sophomore Fall
Department
School of EECS, Computer Science
Current
MegaLabs (Co-founder & CTO)

BS in Computer Science from Peking University (2018); PhD from MIT (2024), advised by Mohammad Alizadeh. Research focuses on efficient consensus and synchronization mechanisms for distributed systems.

Representative work

  • DispersedLedger
  • Rateless IBLTs

Co-founder and CTO of MegaLabs, building MegaETH — the first realtime blockchain.