Yan Zhu

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]

• Yahoo nomination statement for W3C TAG
• "Mapping the Journey" interview Archived 2022-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Yan Zhu personal web site
• Yan Zhu on Quora

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