Josh Payne is currently co-founder and CINO of Autograph, an NFT company. Previously, he was co-founder and COO of AccessBell (acquired by Tata Group), a telemedicine/virtual meeting company, and was the founder and director of the Stanford COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab. He also helped start Marlin Protocol ($POND) in 2018, previously a decentralized content delivery network.Josh has filed over ten patents with IBM Research in the areas of deep learning, digital identity/web3, and information security. He has also published several peer-reviewed articles in deep learning, quantum computing, blockchain, IoT, and computer security in journals and venues such as Nature Communications, NeurIPS, and IEEE.