About me
Dr. Leemon Baird is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Hashgraph. The inventor of the organization’s namesake, the distributed hashgraph consensus algorithm, Leemon co-founded the Hedera network with Mance Harmon. He has two decades of technology and start-up experience, and served as Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy, as well as holding senior scientist roles in several labs. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has spoken at conferences in computer security, machine learning and mathematics.