Yuhang Wu
Security Researcher at depthfirst
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuhang 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
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (63)
substrate10
blockchain-platform10
voting10
foundation10
decentralization10
blockchain10
eosio10
eos10
ethereum9
polkadot9
smart-contracts9
cli8
react8
typescript8
keypair8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meet-one/eos-generate
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
EOS key-pair generator without react.js, based on ecc.js from EOS.IO
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 1 month
keypairreact
meet-one/Testnet
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Testnet
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 months
testingtestnet
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