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.

[6] Yan Zhu is a high school dropout who earned a B.S.

[3] She enrolled as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University in experimental cosmology but dropped out after four months.

[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]