Vid Kersic
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CEO & Founder @ Lutra Labs
PhD Candidate @ University of Maribor
Interested in verifiable AI, decentralized systems, and digital identity.
Bringing transparency & sovereignty to the digital sphere.
Maribor, Slovenia, EU, Earth
work
CEO & Founder @ Lutra Labs
oct 2024 —Deep tech R&D studio — blockchain, Web3, cryptography, and machine learning. Currently main focus is LutraID.
Ethereum Protocol Fellow @ Ethereum Foundation
oct 2022 — feb 2023Developed an ERC-4337 account abstraction bundler in Rust and contributed to several other core Ethereum projects.
Summer Research Intern @ Stanford University
jun — sep 2021Random neighborhood sampling in heterogeneous graphs for graph neural networks, in the SNAP laboratory run by Prof. Jure Leskovec.
Researcher & Project Lead @ Blockchain Lab:UM
nov 2018 —Blockchain research — infrastructure, smart contracts, and decentralized identity. Participated in and managed several internal, national, and EU-funded projects.
skills.md
projects
LutraID
Platform and gateway for companies to use European digital identity infrastructure. Compliant with eIDAS 2.0 — issuer and verifier for EUDIW, and EBW.
zk-OPML
Hybrid approach for validating ML inference, combining optimistic (OPML) and zero-knowledge (ZKML) paradigms.
paperSilius
Efficient and modular ERC-4337 account abstraction bundler in Rust.
Masca
MetaMask Snap that turns your crypto wallet into a self-sovereign identity wallet for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs).
Awesome Ethereum Rust
Curated list of awesome open-source projects in the Rust Ethereum ecosystem.
MLproofs
Platform and framework for zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML), standardizing benchmarking processes — coming soon.
writings
Nothing here yet — thoughts brewing.
education
PhD, Computer Science
exp. dec 2026Verifiable AI and ML inference
MSc, Computer Science
sep 2023Graph neural networks
BSc, Computer Science
sep 2020Graph node embeddings
For published research work, visit my google scholar