Jayant Krishnamurthy is a Contributor at Pyth Data Association and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Douro Labs, a Portugal-based company focused on oracle tooling and Web3 infrastructure. Co-founded by Krishnamurthy and former Jump Trading and Jump Crypto members, Douro Labs aims to expand the Pyth Network's decentralized data services for broader access to real-time market data in the blockchain ecosystem. Krishnamurthy also currently serves as a Software Engineer at Jump Trading Group.^[1][2]

Education

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, working under the guidance of Tom Mitchell. His academic journey also includes a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. Krishnamurthy's undergraduate studies culminated in a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Computer Science from MIT in 2008. Throughout his academic career, Krishnamurthy actively participated as a teaching assistant for various courses.^[3][1]

Career

Jayant Krishnamurthy has been the Chief Technology Officer at Douro Labs since August 2023. Douro Labs, established by Krishnamurthy, Michael Cahill, and Ciarán Cronin, aims to enhance the Pyth Network's decentralized data services by developing oracle tooling, products, and Web3 infrastructure. Founded in 2023, Douro Labs contributes to the acceleration of the Pyth Network, a leading financial oracle network delivering real-time market data to smart contracts.^[7][8]

Before this, he already held the position of Software Engineer at Jump Trading Group, responsible for creating Pyth Network, where he has been employed since August 2021. Jump Trading Group engages in advanced research across Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to apply scientific discoveries to global financial markets. Research outcomes aim to drive superior risk-adjusted returns and contribute to technological advancements across various industries.

"Developers in the DeFi space usually have 3 problems with legacy oracles: Feeds don’t update fast enough, Asset selection isn’t wide enough, Lack of transparent data sources. Pyth Network is designed to solve all of these problems in the most scalable, elegant way" - Jayant Krishnamurthy ^[2]

Members of the Jump Trading team play significant roles in the development of the Pyth Network. The Pyth Network serves as a prominent oracle for real-time financial data globally, facilitating transactions across numerous DeFi applications.^[6][8]

Before his tenure at Jump Trading Group, Krishnamurthy worked at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, from 2018 to 2021. Preceding this role, he served as a Senior Research Scientist at Semantic Machines until 2018, when Microsoft acquired the company.

Krishnamurthy began his professional career as a Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) in May 2015, where he contributed for two years until April 2017, based in Seattle, Washington, United States.^[1]

Publications

Jayant Krishnamurthy's contributions to computer science are evident in his research publications, encompassing diverse areas such as "Structured Set Matching Networks for One-Shot Part Labeling" (CVPR 2018) and "Neural Semantic Parsing with Type Constraints for Semi-Structured Tables" (EMNLP 2017). His studies, including a Ph.D. thesis on "Learning to Understand Natural Language with Less Human Effort" (2015), explore the intersection of language and vision, as seen in "Visually-Verifiable Textual Entailment: A Challenge Task for Combining Language and Vision" (2015).

Krishnamurthy's research spans practical applications like "Instructable Intelligent Personal Agent" (AAAI 2016) and theoretical aspects such as "Learning Compositional Semantics for Freebase with an Open Predicate Vocabulary" (2015). His work aims to reflect a commitment to advancing the understanding of natural language through multidisciplinary research efforts, contributing to the broader field of machine learning.^[4][3][5]