Dr. Tina P. Srivastava

As an entrepreneur, technology expert, author, inventor of more than 15 patents, and an MIT trained rocket scientist, Dr. Tina P. Srivastava has been on the front lines of cutting-edge technology innovation for more than a decade. When her identity was stolen in a data breach in 2015, Dr. Srivastava teamed up with a group of MIT cryptography PhDs to crack the code on one of the most common reasons for modern data breaches: stored credentials. Together, they solved a decades-old problem using math to remove PII, biometrics and other stored credentials from the authentication equation, eliminating highly vulnerable storage systems as points of attack for hackers. Badge is the deviceless, tokenless authentication system changing the backplane of the Internet.