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Yan Zhu
American computer security engineer
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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]
Education
Yan Zhu attended Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis, Missouri. She dropped out and 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]
Career
Zhu worked for Yahoo as a security engineer in 2014 and 2015. She is a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[6] and is currently the chief security officer and manages the security team at Brave Software.[7][2] In 2015 she was one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[8]
Zhu was on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2015[9][10] and is the editor of two W3C documents: the Secure Contexts web standard (2021) and End-to-End Encryption and the Web (2015), a W3C TAG finding that supports the use of end-to-end encryption for web communications.[11][12]
Zhu has contributed to open source works including Brave, HTTPS Everywhere, SecureDrop, Privacy Badger for Firefox, and Tor Browser.[4] As an independent researcher, in 2015 Zhu demonstrated security vulnerabilities in web browsers at the Toorcon security conference in San Diego.[13] She was on the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation from 2017[14] to 2018[15] and Noisebridge in 2013.[16]
