Emin Gün Sirer

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Emin Gün Sirer is a Turkish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work in cryptocurrencies and blockchain consensus protocols, including co-founding the Avalanche blockchain platform.

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Emin Gün Sirer canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkish-American person
academic
computer scientist
entrepreneur
academicRank associate professor
almaMater Princeton University NERFINISHED
University of Washington NERFINISHED
citizenship Turkey NERFINISHED
United States of America
coFounderOf Ava Labs NERFINISHED
Avalanche blockchain platform NERFINISHED
degree PhD in computer science
educatedAt Princeton University
University of Washington
employer Cornell University
familyName Sirer NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork blockchain technology
computer science
consensus protocols
cryptocurrencies
distributed systems
founded Ava Labs NERFINISHED
givenName Emin NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline distributed computing
systems research
hasResearchInterest blockchain scalability
consensus algorithms
network security
operating systems
knownFor Avalanche blockchain platform NERFINISHED
Avalanche consensus protocol NERFINISHED
research on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency security
research on peer-to-peer systems
languageSpoken English
Turkish
memberOf Cornell University Department of Computer Science NERFINISHED
name Emin Gün Sirer NERFINISHED
nationality Turkey NERFINISHED
United States of America
notableFor pioneering work in blockchain consensus protocols
pioneering work in cryptocurrencies
notableWork Avalanche whitepaper NERFINISHED
research on selfish mining in Bitcoin
occupation computer scientist
entrepreneur
professor
workInstitution Cornell University NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Emin Gün Sirer
Description of subject: Emin Gün Sirer is a Turkish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work in cryptocurrencies and blockchain consensus protocols, including co-founding the Avalanche blockchain platform.

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Avalanche foundedBy Emin Gün Sirer