Henrique Moniz | Protocol Labs Research

Henrique Moniz

Research Engineer/ ConsensusLab

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2010
University of Lisbon

MSc in Computer Science, 2006
University of Lisbon

BSc in Computer Science, 2004
University of Lisbon

Henrique is a mix of Research Scientist and Software Engineer. He obtained his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 2010 and has since worked at multiple companies like Microsoft Research, Google, JPMorgan Chase, and Dune Analytics.

As a research scientist, his work has been on distributed computing and the consensus problem. He designed the IBFT/QBFT consensus algorithm, which was widely adopted in the blockchain industry (Quorum, Hyperledger Besu, Polygon Edge, and also SSV Networks and Obol Tech for Shared Ethereum validators).

As a software engineer, he led teams at Google and Dune Analytics, solving distributed computing problems at scale (e.g., storage of Google Docs, distributed query execution).

Talks

Janus and Granite

Scalable asynchronous randomized byzantine agreement

Blog posts

IPC subnets land on Filecoin Spacenet

The Interplanetary Consensus framework (IPC), formerly known as Hierarchical Consensus, addresses two challenges of blockchain networks, transaction volume and application heterogeneity. In doing so, it boosts the capabilities of the Filecoin network.