Who is Emin Gun Sirer?

Turkish professor Emin Gün Sirer, living in New York, USA, with Avalanche (AVAX) Coin, the local token of Avalanche network traded in the crypto market of AVA Labs, of which he is the founder, of the company that produces a coin that is traded in the crypto money market of a Turkish citizen and draws a successful graph. He has become one of the most curious people in his country, especially in crypto investors, economy and finance circles.

Who is Emin Gün Sirer? His life, biography…

Born in 1971 in Turkey, Emin Gün Sirer received his secondary and high school education at Robert College between 1982-1989. After graduation, he received a scholarship from Princeton University in New Jersey, which is one of the best-established universities in America, and graduated from there between 1989-1993 by completing his undergraduate education in Computer Science. Afterwards; Between 1993 and 2000, he did his master’s and doctorate in Computer Science at Washington University. Emin Gün Sirer, who stepped into academic life and started to work at Cornell University in New York in 2007, is an associate professor and now a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and is the co-chair of the Cornell University Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Initiative (IC3).

Emin Gün Sirer first attracted attention in Turkey due to her achievements, thanks to her Turkish search engine Camia.net project in the United States, which caught the attention of journalist Ayşe Arman in 2001 and interviewed her. In this interview, Emin Gün Sirer, who had given his thesis on operating systems that can be expanded quickly, easily and securely at that time, studied the core of the “spin” system that inspired Java, which he was a professor at Cornell University at the age of 29 as a young genius. It turns out that he was the person who wrote it and because of the errors he found in Java, there were news about him in CNN and the New York Times.

Emin Gün Sirer expressed his thoughts on the formation of a possible digital currency in his article Karma, which he wrote before the concept of Bitcoin was around. In addition, it regularly published its works for “peer-to-peer” systems and a more reliable “internet” system.

Prof.Dr.Emin Gun Sirer; He is the founder and CEO of AVA Labs, along with Maofan “Ted” Yin and Kevin Sekniqi. AVA Labs has established the Avalanche network and its native tokens are traded on the cryptocurrency markets under the name Avalanche (AVAX) coin.

Emin Gün Sirer is also the creator of the first PoW-based cryptocurrency and was named one of the Top 10 Most Amazing People in the World (Brilliant Ten) in Popular Science Magazine in 2007.