Fan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. His research aims to solve real-world security problems leveraging decentralized consensus (aka blockchains), cryptography, game theory, and even trusted execution environments (TEEs). He is the recipient of an NSF SaTC Frontier grant (co-PI), three Ethereum Academic Grant awards, a Flashbots Research Grant, a Yale Roberts Innovation Award, 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. In his separate capacity, he is a faculty advisor at Chainlink Labs.