Yan Zhu Explained

Yan Zhu
Native Name:朱颜
Native Name Lang:zh-hans
Birth Date:1991 5, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Beijing, China
Other Names:@bcrypt
Website:azuki.vip
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:MIT
Occupation:Computer security engineer
Employer:Brave

Yan Zhu is a security engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker, and open source contributor.[2] [3] In 2015 she was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[4]

Education

Yan Zhu is a high school dropout who earned a B.S. in physics at MIT.[5] She enrolled as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University in experimental cosmology but dropped out after four months.

Employment

Zhu worked for Yahoo as a security engineer in 2014 and 2015, is a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[6] and is currently the chief security officer at Brave Software.[7]

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.[8] [9] Zhu served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2015.[10] [11]

Other work

Zhu served on the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation from July 2017[12] to June 2018[13] and Noisebridge in 2013.[14]

Zhu has contributed to open source works including:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 25. Yan. Zhu. Github. 2016-05-04. 2018-04-05.
  2. Finley. Klint. The Ad-Blocking Hacker Making Your Browser More Paranoid. Wired. 14 May 2018.
  3. Web site: Speaking history for Yan Zhu Lanyrd. https://web.archive.org/web/20170804214023/http://lanyrd.com/profile/bcrypt/sessions/ . 2017-08-04 . lanyrd.com. 2017-09-28.
  4. News: 2015 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology. 2015-01-05. Forbes. August 4, 2017.
  5. Web site: Williams . Tate . Boston Programmers Hold Hackathon in Memory of #AaronSwartz . Open Media Boston . 5 February 2013.
  6. Web site: EFF People - Staff - Technologist Fellow . Electronic Frontier Foundation . 17 February 2022.
  7. Web site: Triangulation 411 Yan Zhu, AKA bcrypt. TWiT.tv. 2019-09-09.
  8. Web site: West . Mike . Zhu . Yan . Secure Contexts . W3C . 18 September 2021.
  9. Web site: Zhu . Yan . End-to-End Encryption and the Web . W3C . 16 July 2015.
  10. Web site: W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group . W3C . 9 January 2015.
  11. Web site: W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group . W3C . 11 January 2016.
  12. Web site: Foundation Update for July 2017 . Zcash Foundation.
  13. Web site: Zcash Foundation Board Meeting Minutes . GitHub . Zcash Foundation . 28 June 2018.
  14. Web site: Noisebridge Form 990-EZ for period ending December 2013 . ProPublica.

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