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Yan Zhu
American computer security engineer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yan Zhu (simplified Chinese: 朱颜; traditional Chinese: 朱顏; pinyin: Zhū Yán) is a security engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker, and open source contributor.[4][5] In 2015 she was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[6]
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Education
Yan Zhu is a high school dropout who earned a B.S. in physics at MIT.[3] She enrolled as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University in experimental cosmology but dropped out after four months.[4]
Employment
Zhu worked for Yahoo as a security engineer in 2014 and 2015, is a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[7] and is currently the chief security officer and manages the security team at Brave Software.[8][2]
W3C participation
Zhu is the editor of two W3C documents: the Secure Contexts web standard and End-to-End Encryption and the Web, a W3C TAG finding that supports the use of end-to-end encryption for web communications.[9][10] Zhu served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2015.[11][12]
Other work
As an independent researcher, Zhu demonstrated security vulnerabilities in web browsers at the Toorcon security conference in San Diego, and published a proof of concept website and open source for the exploit.[13]
Zhu served on the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation from July 2017[14] to June 2018[15] and Noisebridge in 2013.[16]
Zhu has contributed to open source works including:[4]
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