Fan Zhang is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale. His research interests include the security, privacy, and scalability of decentralized systems. His work has seen industry uptake and been featured in Forbes, MIT Tech Review, IEEE Spectrum, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin Magazine. He received an NSF SaTC Frontier grant (co-PI), three Ethereum Academic Grants, a Flashbots Research Grant, a Yale Roberts Innovation Award, and an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell, advised by Professor Ari Juels. Additionally, he is a faculty advisor at Chainlink Labs.
