Quan Hoang Nguyen is currently a CTO at Fantom Foundation, aiming for R&D and innovation in DLT, CaaS and Smart contracts. He is avid for fundamentals and emerging technologies. His research interests include Distributed Computing, Blockchain Technologies, GraphVis, InfoVis, Data Mining, Program Analysis, Compiler Optimization and Transactional Memory. He has rich experience in R&D at various organizations. Prior to joining Fantom, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the University of Sydney 2016-2018 and IBM 2013-2016. He also had work experience at Capital Markets CRC, Smarts - NASDAQ, and National ICT Australia (NICTA).