[1][2][3] Parisa Tabriz was born in 1983 to an Iranian father, a doctor, and a Polish-American mother, a nurse.

[5][7][8] She was an active member of a student club interested in computer security, which she joined because her own website was hacked.

[4] Tabriz was offered a summer internship with Google's security team while at college,[9] and joined the company a few months after her graduation in 2007.

at the Chrome Dev Summit [13] and led an effort to drive adoption of the HTTPS protocol.

[17] In 2016, Tabriz took over responsibility for Project Zero, an offensive security research group dedicated to finding zero day vulnerabilities and reducing the harm caused by targeted attacks.