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Yan Zhu () is a
security engineer,
open web standards author, technology speaker, and
open source contributor.
In 2015 she was recognized as one of
Forbes 30 Under 30.
Education
Yan Zhu is a high school dropout who earned a
B.S. in physics at
MIT.
She enrolled as a
National Science Foundation
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Graduate Research Fellow at
Stanford University
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in experimental cosmology but dropped out after four months.
Employment
Zhu worked for
Yahoo
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as a
security engineer in 2014 and 2015, is a fellow at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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It provides funds for legal defense in court, ...
,
and is currently the chief security officer and manages the security team at
Brave Software.
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. Zhu served on the
W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2015.
Other work
As an independent researcher, Zhu demonstrated
security vulnerabilities in
web browsers at the Toorcon security conference in
San Diego
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, and published a proof of concept website and open source for the exploit.
Zhu served on the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation from July 2017 to June 2018 and
Noisebridge in 2013.
Zhu has contributed to open source works including:
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Brave
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HTTPS Everywhere
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SecureDrop
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Privacy Badger for
Firefox
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Tor Browser
References
External links
Yahoo nomination statement for W3C TAG"Mapping the Journey" interviewYan Zhupersonal web site
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Yan Zhuon
Quora
Living people
1991 births
Chinese engineers
Computer engineers
21st-century American women engineers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
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