Mahsa Moosavi


Mahsa Moosavi is a blockchain engineer and Ph.D. candidate at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering in Montreal, Canada. She previously worked as a research intern at the Québec regulatory organization, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), where she worked on decentralized cryptocurrency exchange systems. Mahsa’s current research is mainly focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). She has contributed to the broader blockchain community by participating as a blockchain mentor/expert in several large FinTech competitions. She has also given many talks and tutorials on the topic in various conferences and training sessions.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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