Praveen Jayachandran is a research staff member, master inventor and manager of the Blockchain and Smart Contracts team at IBM Research, India. His work spans different aspects of blockchain technology, including developing an enterprise-grade blockchain platform, development of smart contracts, and reimagining industry use cases in a blockchain world. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010, and a B.Tech-M.Tech dual degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was the recipient of the best paper award at ECRTS 2009 and the best student paper award at ECRTS 2007. He also received the Feng Chen Memorial award in 2010 and the C.L. and Jane Liu award in 2008, both from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the Vodafone Fellowship in 2007-08 and the Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship in 2005-06. He has received awards from IBM India University Relations for excellent contributions to University Relations Programs in 2014 and 2015, and Distinguished Paper Awards from IBM Research -- India in 2013. He has served in the program committees of numerous international conferences and journals.