Jack is a physicist, entrepreneur, and software developer. He became fascinated by distributed networks while finishing his Ph.D. at UCSF. He has delved into scientific computing (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), blockchain programming (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), computer vision, neural networks, peer-to-peer networking, GIS, and web development. He was a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, and has published several peer-reviewed articles on complex networks and information theory, including modeling and simulation of protein-protein interaction networks and social networks, automated kinetic model extraction for single-molecule experiments, and the statistical mechanics of "heavy-tailed" distributions. He is currently building Augur's JavaScript API and front-end. In his free time, Jack enjoys swimming, picking blackberries, and travel writing.

Joey took a leave of absence from Pomona College to focus full time on Augur. He conducted the first Bitcoin transaction via sound as well as the first Bitcoin transaction via iOS-Android Bluetooth LE. Joey is one of the 2016 Thiel Fellows. Before creating Augur, he and Jack completed Sidecoin, which allows new cryptocurrency distributions based on "snapshots" of Bitcoin account balances. He works on Augur's back-end codebase (its Ethereum smart contracts). He is currently making Augur's consensus implementation faster and more accurate. Joey worked on Bitcoin merchant solutions and enjoys hardware tinkering and game development. He was his high school valedictorian and a senior officer of his college investment club.

Stephen brings a level of familiarity and comfort to the start-up and scaling phases of product design and development having either founded or co-founded a series of ventures previously. His former projects include Cryptoping and address watching service, Certle which provides technical certification tracking and Giving.io, a mobile donations platform for faith institutions. Being a relatively early adopter of Bitcoin has helped influence his growing passion for decentralized applications and the cryptocurrencies that support them. He is looking forward to contributing to the front-end initiative of the Augur and its truly novel form of research and insight that's provided in a resilient manner.

Tomas joined Intrade back in 2011, where he gained experience on how to build various UIs - simplified for basic users, advanced for real-time traders and compact for mobile devices. Then he went to work for Barclays in 2013 before coming back to the development team that previously created Intrade. Tomas was a core developer of the Tradesports fantasy sports platform. He yet again worked on real-time UIs and building multi-platform hybrid mobile applications while gaining exposure to bitcoin. He's skilled at JS, CSS, Java, SQL and various JS frameworks. He spent a few years at The University of Economics, Prague (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze) before moving on early to a career in programming. In addition to programming, he enjoys sports, culture and bacon. Lots of bacon.

John has experience working in small software companies with big clients and brings an agile “wear many hats” ability to the Augur team. His work has allowed him to build pages and applications with clients such as Eli Lilly, Scholastic, and Pearson Education. He has experience with all manner of browser quirks, a proficiency in JavaScript, a passion to learn all there is to know about JavaScript applications, and the ever growing ecosystem that surrounds JavaScript. Although relatively new to developing decentralized software powered by cryptocurrency, John is excited to jump headfirst into this new and ground breaking field.

Ryan is a programmer skilled in C++ and Basic. Before joining Augur he designed an improved quadratic fee structure, created a routine for automatically distributing the labor of judges to achieve a target accuracy, and designed a way to calculate re-adjudication bonds based on opportunity cost. In Ryan's spare time he enjoys researching and discussing futurology, decentralization, concepts derived from quantum nature, and use cases of DAOs. Additionally, Ryan has an interest in World War II strategy and analyzing the cost-benefit relationship of equipment, this interest lead to Ryan creating the largest WWII realism mod for Wesnoth. Ryan is on /r/Augur using the handle imkharn.

Petr Baudis manages a special R&D project within Augur to build a reporter helper system that uses Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) to recommend answers to questions about predicted outcomes on reporters' ballots. Petr is an authority on the subject as the team leader of YodaQA, a widely recognized global initiative to build a lighterweight, open-source Q&A alternative to IBM Watson. He's fluent in Computer Go, continuous black-box optimization, combinatorial game theory, Monte Carlo simulations, information extraction from unstructured text, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Linux, and Unix. He has a Masters in Theoretical Computer Science at Charles University and is currently a PhD candidate at Czech Tech University. He worked for Novartis, Novell and Sirius Labs and participated in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology annual Text Retrieval Conference on LiveQA.

Tony managed the first, bitcoin-related national TV ad campaign, the most successful social media campaign in the cryptocurrency space to date, as the Marketing Manager for BitPay. That capped 10+ years of work on digital campaigns with Microsoft, PayPal, ESPN, Warner Bros. and other tech and entertainment groups. He is obsessed with decentralization and bayesian probability, making him a perfect fit for Augur. His podcast decentralize.fm (also on iTunes and Sticher) features bleeding-edge projects and celebrities. He specializes in promoting decentralized software products and platforms. Tony's philosophy on marketing focuses on transparency, customer interaction and making the project as easy to understand as possible.

Perry is involved in special operations for Augur, including strategic initiatives involving the financial sector, artificial intelligence, business outreach outside the US and project documentation. He worked as an economics correspondent for the Financial Times, Fortune and Investors Business Daily after majoring in economics at Harvard. Before the 2007 crash, he uncovered heavy insider selling by homebuilder executives, used futures markets to gauge the surprising extent of Wall Street's dependence on the Fed, was first to report the Fed's formal brainstorming over unconventional stimulus options and how the U.S. government's future financial challenges were massively underestimated. He developed regressions to assess which nations might outperform or underperform going forward based on which were "underpriced" or "overpriced." He manages various special projects for info services group Serenity, Augur and the Forecast Foundation.

Kevin became interested in programming and the human brain at a young age, which led to him earning degrees in Computer Science and Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science at The University of Michigan. Before joining Augur, he spent the last 9 years designing and writing performance sensitive database instrastructure for Fixed Income data at a company specializing in financial services and analytics. Kevin has been a blockchain hobbyist for years, participating in a number of different projects and communities. He believes so strongly in the version of the future presented by Ethereum and Augur that it compelled him to leave his job to pursue it full time. When not building the future, Kevin enjoys spending time with his wife and dog, playing blues piano, machine learning, traveling, and wakeboarding.

Ivan is from Croatia, born and raised in Zagreb, where he graduated in Economics. His family is in the publishing business (school books and other educational materials) for over 4 decades. He mostly works in marketing, and he intends to be among the first to apply blockchain technology to schoolbooks/textbooks to help young generations get as much as knowledge possible at early age. When Ivan read about Bitcoin and the blockchain for the first time, he declared it a new "internet" or a new "steam locomotive". He believes in the new speeds, connections, transparency, savings, reduction of frauds, reduction of middlemen and accounting expenses, and so much more that platforms based on blockchain can bring to everyone. He believes that the world today is fueled by information, about everyone anywhere: company, bank, or individual. The only logical move is to fully transparent platforms and businesses which will create huge new value and also win the trust to new millions of participants across the world with fair and available systems to everyone. Ivan loves the ability that Augur will give to anyone anywhere to create the market in which anybody can participate. Outside of Augur, he enjoys the intoxicating tastes of wine; he created a very special red wine on an island in Adriatic Sea, Croatia, and loves to share it with his friends. He also loves hiking, fishing, cooking...especially fish he caught himself!