Virgil Griffith is a data research scientist at Ethereum and a member of the ENS team, focusing on blockchain, smart contracts, data science, and security. He has worked as a PHP developer since high school, worked as a network administrator in college, and then as a research assistant in computer security. After graduation, he wanted to serve humanity and expand his scientific knowledge, so he studied complex nervous systems at Caltech from 2007 to 2013. In 2014, he returned to the tech industry and moved to Silicon Valley. In 2022, Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 63 months in prison and fined $100,000 in the United States.