Salman Avestimehr is co-founder of ChainOpera and co-founder and CEO of FedML.nnSalman Avestimehr is a leading expert in machine learning, federated/decentralized learning, information theory, security/privacy, and blockchain systems, with over 20 years of R&D leadership experience in academia and industry. He has been a Dean's Professor at the University of Southern California and the inaugural Director of the USC-Amazon Center for Trusted Machine Learning. He has also held advisory positions at several technology companies, including Amazon/Alexa-AI. nnSalman Avestimehr received the U.S. Presidential Award for his far-reaching contributions to information technology and is an IEEE Fellow. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley/EECS in 2008.nnTranslated with DeepL.com (free version)