Yan Zhu
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Yan Zhu | |
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朱颜 | |
 Zhu in 2015 | |
| Born | 4 May 1991[1] |
| 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]
Education
[edit]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]
Employment
[edit]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]
W3C participation
[edit]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]
Other work
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Zhu, Yan (2016-05-04). "25". Github. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ a b "Triangulation 411 Yan Zhu, AKA bcrypt". TWiT.tv. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ a b Williams, Tate (5 February 2013). "Boston Programmers Hold Hackathon in Memory of #AaronSwartz". Open Media Boston.
- ^ a b c Finley, Klint. "The Ad-Blocking Hacker Making Your Browser More Paranoid". Wired. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ "Speaking history for Yan Zhu | Lanyrd". lanyrd.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
- ^ "2015 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology". Forbes. 2015-01-05. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
- ^ "EFF People - Staff - Technologist Fellow". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ West, Mike; Zhu, Yan (18 September 2021). "Secure Contexts". W3C.
- ^ Zhu, Yan (16 July 2015). "End-to-End Encryption and the Web". W3C.
- ^ "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group". W3C. 9 January 2015.
- ^ "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group". W3C. 11 January 2016.
- ^ "Foundation Update for July 2017". Zcash Foundation.
- ^ "Zcash Foundation Board Meeting Minutes". GitHub. Zcash Foundation. 28 June 2018.
- ^ "Noisebridge Form 990-EZ for period ending December 2013". ProPublica.
External links
[edit]- Yahoo nomination statement for W3C TAG
- "Mapping the Journey" interview
- Yan Zhu personal web site
- Yan Zhu on Twitter
- Yan Zhu on Quora
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