Wen Xu
Co-Founder at Narya.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWen Xu is a security-focused co-founder and researcher with nine years of hands-on experience building automated bug-finding systems for modern software. As co-founder of Narya.ai and a former Georgia Tech postdoc, he has discovered hundreds of vulnerabilities across operating systems and web browsers and published at top security venues including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security, NDSS, and BlackHat USA. His practical impact is validated by wins at Pwn2Own and DEF CON CTF and internships at Microsoft and Tencent KeenLab. Wen combines deep academic rigor from a PhD program with startup execution, specializing in scalable, automated security tooling. Based in Palo Alto, he blends offensive research expertise with product-minded engineering to move vulnerability discovery from manual exploitation toward reliable automation. An understated strength is his track record of turning exploit techniques into reproducible research and tools that other teams can adopt.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (41)
hydra9
introspection9
extensible8
stability8
semantic8
security8
fuzzer7
solidity7
afl-fuzz7
fuzzing6
yield6
ethereum6
javascript-engine6
tls136
analyzer6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NaryaAI/narya-contracts
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 50 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
sslab-gatech/janus
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 10 pushes, 4 comments in 7 months
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