Jinquan Zhang
Senior Staff Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJinquan Zhang is a Senior Staff Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry security practice. He holds a Ph.D. from Penn State (supervised by Prof. Dinghao Wu) and a BE from Zhejiang University, and his work centers on binary analysis, software security, and applied machine learning. Jinquan has blended deep research with hands-on engineering through internships and roles at Meta, ByteDance, Baidu USA, and Trusted Science & Technology, bringing practical vulnerability research into production contexts. Based in San Jose, he frequently translates academic insights into tooling and techniques that improve real-world defensive posture, reflecting a researcher who ships solutions as well as papers. An often overlooked strength is his teaching and mentoring experience at Penn State, which sharpens his ability to communicate complex security concepts to engineers and stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (20)
transformation9
infrastructure7
rust7
compiler6
crate5
pytorch4
allocator4
garbage-collection4
rust-language4
deep-learning3
tensorflow3
paddlepaddle3
rust-lang3
neural-network3
hardware3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shipperzhang/FlatD_paper
Dec 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
zhjq8688/zhjq8688.github.io
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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