Srikar is focused on the future of humanity and how advances in artificial intelligence will shape it. His interests include AI for science, cryptography infrastructure, tools preserving human agency and identity, information markets, and innovative approaches to funding scientific research. Currently, Srikar is the founder of Eternis (https://eternis.ai/), which addresses challenges in one-click resource distribution based on human attributes, delegated keys for AI agents, and AI models in Trusted Execution Environments for sovereign ownership of personal AI. Previously, Srikar co-founded Spectral, developing a provably fair credit-scoring mechanism, and served as a senior advisor to Scroll, a zk-rollup scaling Ethereum. He was also a partner at venture studio EIV, where he created a prediction markets platform. Srikar was a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and holds Math and CS degrees from Columbia University. In his commitment to support science and visionary founders, Srikar has personally invested in companies across a broad spectrum of his interests, including robotics, protein sequencing, nanofabrication, early Alzheimer's detection, and longitudinal study data collection. Srikar enjoys engaging with researchers and builders who might benefit from cross-disciplinary idea synthesis or seek creative applications for novel scientific concepts.
