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Yan Zhu | |
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朱颜 | |
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Born | [1] | 4 May 1991
Nationality | American |
Other names | @bcrypt |
Alma mater | MIT [3] |
Occupation | Computer security engineer |
Employer | Brave |
Website | azuki.vip |
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]
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]
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 at Brave Software. [2]
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]
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: [4]