Organizing Committee
Dr. Oshani Seneviratne
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, RPI
Dr. Seneviratne leads the Bridging Resilient Accountable Intelligent Networked Systems (BRAINS) Lab. Her research focuses on decentralized systems, including web technologies, blockchain, and decentralized learning, with applications in health informatics and fintech. She has extensive workshop-organization experience including the AIChain Workshop Series at the IEEE Blockchain conference, and she was the primary organizer of the inaugural AI-R2D2 workshop at ACM International Conference on AI and Finance (ICAIF) in November 2025.
Dr. Zachary Feinstein
Associate Professor and Director of the FinTech Certificate Program, Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Feinstein's primary research focuses on financial networks and systemic risk, crucial topics for ensuring resilience in the complex DeFi ecosystem. He co-organized the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr), serves as INFORMS Finance Section Vice Chair, and was a co-organizer of the previous edition of the AI-R2D2 workshop at ICAIF'25.
Dr. Wei Cai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Systems and and Director of Decentralized Computing Laboratory, University of Washington
Dr. Cai leads the Decentralized Computing Laboratory. His research in Decentralized FinTech includes Crypto Airdrops, Decentralized Exchanges, and Decentralized SocialFi.
Dr. Mary Lai Salvana
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Dr. Salvana has a strong track record of organizing events, including co-founding and co-organizing two international online seminar series: Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science (STSDS) and High-Performance Statistical Computing (HPSC).
Fernando Spadea
Doctoral Researcher, RPI
Fernando is a doctoral researcher specializing in AI for decentralized systems at RPI. He brings operational experience organizing technical workshops, running competitions (e.g., FinSurvival Challenge at ICAIF'25), and supporting paper-review workflows at international conferences and workshops.
