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Wenona Tate

Long-tenured contributor

Based in Bay Area
Node-cell polya-25
ORCID 0000-5474-7694-6116

Research

Wenona is a co-author on the federated scheduler paper. Her specific contribution centres on the quadratic-voting mechanism used in the weekly compute allocation — what budgets contributors should receive, how the cost curve should be set, and how the QV outcomes should interact with the tenure-weighted priority and project-priority signals.

She has been with alphabell since 2020 and is based in the Bay Area, where she works closely with Pranav Iyer on scheduler revisions. She is on the cell formation review pool.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, Stanford, 2015.

Prior to alphabell: Stanford; Constellation; Helios Safety Group.

Selected publications

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Recent talks

  • Voting weights and capacity allocation, EC 2025
  • QV in the wild, alphabell internal series 2025
Working with

Wenona is currently part of node-cell polya-25, working under the Agentic engineering research axis. The cell is open to substantive correspondence from researchers working on adjacent problems; route requests through polya-25@alphabell.com or directly to Wenona at wenona-tate@alphabell.com.