Dr. Rashmi Prabhakar Sarode is currently a Principal Project Scientist at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. She has received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Aizu, Japan in 2021. Her research focuses on Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Scalability, Interoperability and Peer-to-Peer Systems.