Yajin (Andy) Zhou is a professor at Zhejiang University. Yajin earned a Ph.D. (2015) in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and then worked as a senior security researcher at Qihoo 360. Yajin is a co-founder of BlockSec, a startup committed to building blockchain security infrastructure. Yajin has published more than 50 papers, with 9500+ citations (Google Scholar). Two of the papers have been selected to the list of normalized Top-100 security papers since 1981. Yajin was recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award for contributions to the field of Security and Privacy. Yajin's current research spans traditional ones (software security, operating systems security and hardware-assisted security) and emerging areas (security of smart contracts, decentralized finance (DeFi) security, and underground economy.)
