Dr. Allison Bishop is the President and co-founder of Proof Trading, a startup agency broker-dealer for US equities. She is currently serving as the Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and is the creator of CFAIL, an annual conference for failed approaches and insightful losses in cryptology. She was formerly a quantitative researcher at IEX, an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University, and an adjunct researcher for the Institute for Defense Analyses. Her areas of expertise include trading algorithm design, market microstructure, cryptography, applied machine learning, and distributed systems.