Uri Lee
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About
Builder and product engineer based in London. PhD candidate in Blockchain at Imperial College London, researching cross-chain protocols, mechanism design, and DeFi risk.
Outside of research, I build AI and Web3 products—3x published (IEEE, ACM), 8x hackathon winner in 2025, MSci in CS with AI from King's College London.
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Education
PhD in Computing
Imperial College London · London, UK
MSci Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
King's College London · London, UK
Graduated with First Class Honours (4.0 GPA)
Projects
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Experience
Research Internship
Movement Labs · Remote
Lead research on cross-L2 liquidity and atomic transactions enabled by Shared Sequencer compatible with L2 Parallel Execution Engine.
FX Platform Developer
BNP Paribas · London
Full stack development of internal User Management tool including Java API, .NET service and TypeScript frontend development.
Software Engineering Internship
Cambrian Intelligence · London
Created VM management library using GCloud SDK. Data preparation of evaluation datasets for benchmarking ML algorithms (NumPy, OpenCV).
Software Engineering Internship
MyOptiqueGroup · London
Developed and integrated a full-stack customer service chatbot with order tracking using AWS (Lex, Lambda, API Gateway).
Research
Blockchain protocol design, cross-chain mechanism design, network analysis, and systemic risk analysis.
SoK: Crosschain Token Bridges and Risk
IEEE ICBC · 2024
Network Topology and Latent Structures in Crosschain Liquidity Flows
Taking high dimensional blockchain transaction data to analyse cross-chain liquidity flows using network science techniques.
MARBLE Conference · 2024
Interlock Protocol: Interactive Cross-L2 Atomic Transactions via Stateless Shared Sequencer
Mechanism design of an interoperability protocol enabling atomic transactions between two L2 blockchains.
EAI BlockTEA · 2024
Invited to ACM journal as top 3 paper