# RPGF Nomination - Kobi Gurkan

**URL:** <https://forum.namada.net/t/rpgf-nomination-kobi-gurkan/185>\
**Category:** Nominations\
**Created:** [18 March 2023 19:37 UTC](https://forum.namada.net/t/rpgf-nomination-kobi-gurkan/185 "2023-03-18T19:37:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daeinar](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.namada.net/daeinar/32/131_2.png) [@Daeinar](https://forum.namada.net/u/Daeinar)\
**Post date:** [18 March 2023 19:37 UTC](https://forum.namada.net/t/rpgf-nomination-kobi-gurkan/185/1 "2023-03-18T19:37:29Z")

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Hereby, I would like to nominate Kobi Gurkan, co-founder at [Geometry Research](https://www.geometryresearch.xyz/) and [ZKValidator](https://zkvalidator.com/), and former head of cryptography at [cLabs](https://clabs.co/). Kobi is an exceptionally talented crypto engineer and researcher and has worked on innumerable projects in cryptography, distributed systems, and cryptocurrencies. Besides his code contributions to [open-source projects](https://github.com/kobigurk/) that are too numerous to count, he’s also published various research papers, including [Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/005) and [Plumo: An Ultralight Blockchain Client](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1361), is an occasional co-host at [ZK Podcast](https://zeroknowledge.fm/), and is one of the co-organizers of the highly regarded [ZKHack](https://zkhack.dev/) event series that has educated countless participants on state-of-the-art ZK technologies, just to give a few examples.

Nominee: [Kobi Gurkan](https://twitter.com/kobigurk)  
Proposer: [Philipp Jovanovic](https://twitter.com/Daeinar)