Shiva Kintali is an AI Architect at Nvidia, Mathematician, Cryptographer, Ex Princeton Lecturer, Artist, Writer.
He is a frequent public speaker on AI, Blockchain, Cryptography and Game theory and their socio-economic and cultural impact.
His (academic and industry, theoretical and practical) experience spans algorithm design, complexity theory, cryptography, machine learning, blockchain protocols, algorithmic game theory, structural graph theory, group theory, mathematical physics, elliptic curves, natural language processing, information retrieval, compiler design and high-performance computing.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California and B-Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
He is the recipient of
Young Alumni Achiever Award from his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. IIT bestows the award on alumni under 45 who “have made a significant professional contribution which is recognized widely.”
He is the author of
Cryptics, a hard science fiction novel and a technological thriller aimed at introducing some of the most amazing concepts of cryptography, blockchain, zero-knowledge proofs, artificial intelligence and mathematics in a fun, exciting and a memorable way. It is a story of five middle school students, who meet at a talk given by Dr. Shiva Kintali, a billionaire mathematician and a technologist. Doc brings their attention to a puzzle, whose solution is worth $10 Billion. The students compete with some of the best cryptographers, cypherpunks, mathematicians, coders and hackers of this generation. In the largest global treasure hunt ever. In the history of humankind.
