William Knottenbelt is Professor of Applied Quantitative Analysis, Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering and Director of Computer Science for the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis.  He has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers, is an editor of Performance Evaluation Journal, and has served as general or program chair of numerous conferences and workshops related to quantitative modelling and/or cryptocurrencies, most recently ACM/SPEC ICPE 2024 and IEEE ICBC 2024. A keen supporter of student-led innovation, he is technical advisor to a number of start ups including Deep Render, Aventus and DeepSearch Labs.