Neel Somani teaching a class

Neel Somani

University of California, Berkeley | Class of 2019
B.A. Mathematics | B.A. Computer Science | B.S. Business Administration
Major GPA: 4.0

Bio

Neel Somani is the Founder of Eclipse Labs and the original architect of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) Layer 2. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a triple major in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Business Administration, later serving on the Board of the Berkeley-Haas Alumni Network. His contributions to security and privacy have been recognized at top conferences such as USENIX Security and OOPSLA, where Duet received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award. He has raised $65M for Eclipse, backed multiple billion-dollar crypto protocols through Chord Ventures, and supports education through the Neel Somani Scholarship Program. He has been recognized as an Accel Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and Cal Alumni Association Leadership Award recipient.

Research

Research Interests: Optimization, security, and blockchain. Auction theory and market optimization. Privacy-preserving machine learning. Blockchain and decentralized systems. Privacy and applied cryptography. Using LLMs to improve security and scale practical LLM usage.

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