Serene (pianist)
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Serene is ethnically Chinese and spent her childhood in a variety of regions within North America.[1] She attended Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a degree in computer science[1] in 2012.
Career in software
She worked as the first engineer for technology incubator Google Ideas,[4] now Jigsaw LLC. While a senior fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she was a recipient of the Open Technology Fund’s Information Controls Fellowship, where she created Snowflake,[5][6] a pluggable transport enabling censorship circumvention for The Tor Project as its first use-case.
She is the founder of Snowstorm, the rearchitected V2 and commercialization of the Snowflake transport technology. In July 2023, Snowstorm finished its seed round of $3 million.[7] Snowflake came to prominence when the Tor network began using it to prevent hostile actors from blocking access to Tor.[8][9][10]
Serene is an advisory board member of the World Ethical Data Foundation.[11]