Ala Shaabana

Ala Shaabana is a co-founder of Crucible Labs. Previously, Ala was a co-founder of Bittensor, and the Opentensor Foundation, where he led the development and maintenance of the Bittensor protocol since 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in applied artificial intelligence and has a background in industrial research and development on distributed computing and load prediction, having previously worked at VMware from 2018 to 2019. His work focuses on advancing decentralized machine learning and AI infrastructure.