# Madars Virza

> Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Radius. Co-inventor of Zerocash, co-founder of Zcash. IEEE Test of Time Award. MIT PhD in Computer Science.

Cryptographer and computer scientist. Research spans zero-knowledge proof systems, privacy-preserving payments, central bank digital currency, and verifiable computation. Cryptographic techniques from his research underpin core standards in Ethereum and secure billions of dollars in digital assets.

## Pages

- [Madars Virza's homepage](https://madars.org/index.md): Bio, current role, and contact information
- [Madars Virza's publications](https://madars.org/papers.md): Full list of peer-reviewed papers with links to PDFs
- [Madars Virza's PhD thesis](https://madars.org/phd-thesis/index.md): "On deploying succinct zero-knowledge proofs" — Sprowls Award for Best MIT PhD Thesis in Computer Science
- [Full context for LLMs](https://madars.org/llms-full.txt): Extended narrative with research descriptions, career context, and complete bibliography

## External

- [Radius](https://www.radiustech.xyz/): Current company — payment network for the AI economy
- [Madars Virza on Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gNgWmKsAAAAJ): Citation profile and publication metrics
- [Madars Virza on GitHub](https://github.com/madars): Open source contributions including libsnark
- [Madars Virza on DBLP](https://dblp.org/pid/05/8397.html): Computer science bibliography record
- [libsnark](https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark): C++ library for zk-SNARKs, co-authored by Virza

## Optional

- [Madars Virza's homepage in Latvian](https://madars.org/lv/index.md): Latvian translation of homepage
- [Madars Virza's publications in Latvian](https://madars.org/lv/raksti.md): Latvian translation of publications page
- [Madars Virza on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madars)
- [Madars Virza on ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-9075)
- [Zerocash project](http://zerocash-project.org/)
- [Zcash](https://z.cash)

Last updated: March 21, 2026