Giulia Fanti is an academic researcher and Angel Jordan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University whose work spans blockchain privacy, cryptocurrency networking, and privacy-preserving systems. Giulia Fanti's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #35,832 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Giulia Fanti co-authored Dandelion, a proposal to improve anonymity in the Bitcoin network, and followed it with Dandelion++, a lightweight cryptocurrency networking protocol that was evaluated on Bitcoin mainnet. She also co-authored Spider, a high-throughput routing proposal for cryptocurrency payment channel networks such as the Lightning Network. Her appointment as Angel Jordan Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University took effect July 1, 2024.
Giulia Fanti holds courtesy appointments in both the Computer Science Department and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and is affiliated with CyLab. She serves as co-director of CyLab-Africa, the Upanzi Network, and the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, and is a member of the United Nations DPI Safeguards Working Group. She was previously affiliated with Distributed Technologies Research, where she contributed to Unit-e, a scalability-focused cryptocurrency project. She formerly served on the Department of Commerce Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and was a fellow of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cybersecurity.
Giulia Fanti's account has accumulated 2,220 followers as of August 2026 and 121 posts. She has been mentioned by 28 accounts, with 47 total mentions.
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