Summary
Yuhang Wu is a Red Team Engineer and PhD candidate in computer science at Northwestern University specializing in web and system security, with 11 years of hands-on experience finding and fixing vulnerabilities across enterprise, vehicle, and blockchain systems. He has a strong research background and CTF pedigree—both solving and authoring challenges for major competitions—which informs his creative offensive and defensive approaches. Professional stints range from discovering hundreds of vulnerabilities at a security firm to building an LLM-based agent for automated code auditing at Tesla that exposed eight critical flaws. Based in San Jose, he combines deep academic rigor with practical red teaming at scale, and he’s comfortable migrating insights between research, industry audits, and competitive security problem design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Wuhan University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern University