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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] In 2015 she was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[6]
Yan Zhu
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朱颜
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Zhu in 2015
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| Born | (1991-05-04) 4 May 1991 (age 33)[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | @bcrypt |
| Alma mater | MIT[3] |
| Occupation | Computer security engineer |
| Employer | Brave |
| Website | azuki.vip |
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]
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