Evan Miyazono | Protocol Labs Research

Evan Miyazono

Research Team Lead

Education

PhD in Applied Physics, 2017
California Institute of Technology
MS in Materials Science and Engineering, 2011
Stanford University
BS in Materials Science and Engineering, 2010
Stanford University

Evan is the team lead for Research at Protocol Labs. He has lived in California his whole life, bouncing between NorCal and SoCal. He spent enough of his childhood at beaches that a sandy shore always feels familiar; the rest was spent sitting at a computer, reading books, or disassembling things. He eventually majored in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford after unintentionally picking up minors in math and CS. He was then driven by his curiosity to a PhD in Applied Physics at Caltech and, upon completion, was lead to Protocol Labs by a desire to build systems that affect real people.

Evan still loves beaches, reading, and disassembly. Figuring out how things do, should, or could work is a passion, and sharing that knowledge is a favorite hobby. He’ll go on for hours if you tell him you’re interested in his thesis, so set a time limit before starting on that particular odyssey of quantum optics and nanofabrication.

Talks

2019-02-02

Mergeable consensus
ConsensusDay 1 / 2019.02.02 / Stanford, CA, USA
Evan Miyazono
Distributed systems

2018-07-09

Protocol Labs Research Overview
IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings / 2018.07.09 / Berlin, Germany
Evan Miyazono

2018-05-22

The Protocol Labs RFP Program
IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings / 2018.05.22 / Lisbon, Portugal
Evan Miyazono

Blog posts

2023-01-18/Blog
Pausing PL Research Open Research Grants
Over the 2022 calendar year, Protocol Labs Research received a tremendous amount of participation and submissions for our Open Research Grants program. Having awarded more than $1 million USD for researchers around the globe, we could not be more proud of the success of this program and the quality of our award recepients.
Evan Miyazono, Abby Silin, Britt Yazel

2021-09-02/Blog
A rebuttal to the Metaverse as a dystopia
A group of researchers here at PL recently indulged a tirade of mine about the notion that a metaverse is not something that we should want. It seemed worth the time to improve and condense the logic I presented there.
Evan Miyazono

2020-08-27/Blog
Introducing the Filecoin Economy
Filecoin provides a blockchain-based marketplace that promises to revolutionize the global storage economy. The Filecoin marketplace delivers a totally new and secure way for anyone in the world to buy and sell storage. We’re excited to share an overview of how the storage economy works on the Filecoin Network.
Rachel Horn, Evan Miyazono, Zixuan (ZX) Zhang
CryptoEconLab
Cryptoeconomics

2020-03-19/Blog
SourceCred: an introduction to calculating cred and grain
You may not know that Protocol Labs is a supporter of an open-source governance and sustainability project called SourceCred. As a participant in a small SourceCred meetup last month, I learned enough about the underlying algorithm that I wrote up an explainer for their documentation repo and thought it might be interesting to share it here as well.
Evan Miyazono

2019-12-19/News
To the future...
Protocol Labs is a remarkably ambitious and ideological company. For example, our team’s dedication to abstraction has left us with an unusually modular corporate structure, and our belief in future-proof solutions has us biting off so much that we’re often left chewing for a long time.
Evan Miyazono