Dr. Fan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. His research aims to solve real-world security problems by building systems with precise and strong security guarantees. Recently, he has been passionate about blockchain systems and their applications (e.g., DeFi), identity and credentials, anonymity networks, etc. He is the recipient of an NSF SaTC Frontier grant (co-PI), a Yale Roberts Innovation Award, numerous grants from Ethereum Foundation, Flashbots, Mysten Labs, and an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, for his works that solve practical problems in decentralized systems. Several of his works have seen industry uptake, and have been featured in Forbes, MIT Tech Review, IEEE Spectrum, CoinDesk, BitcoinMagazine, and numerous other blockchain news outlets. He has served on program committees of top-tier conferences such as ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, Financial Cryptography, PoPETS, as well as blockchain-focused venues such as SBC, ACM AFT, ACM CCS DeFi, FCDeFi, etc. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, advised by Prof. Ari Juels. He received B.S. from Tsinghua University, China.