Zehua Wang
Core Faculty Member at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZehua Wang is a research-driven technologist and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry in decentralized systems, blockchain, and wireless networks. Holding a PhD from UBC and serving as Adjunct Professor and Core Faculty at Blockchain@UBC, he leads projects on resource sharing, decentralized authentication, and privacy-preserving ML while directing an NSERC-funded IoT security initiative. As a co-founder of Entropyfi and ZeroX Gaming and former Chief Micropayments Scientist at RightMesh, he designed Layer-2 payment-channel solutions to commercialize mobile ad-hoc networks, blending cryptography, optimization, and game theory. He also mentors startups at entrepreneurship@UBC and edits for Wireless Networks, demonstrating a rare mix of hands-on protocol design, academic leadership, and commercialization experience. An interesting thread through his career is consistently turning theoretical tools into practical, scalable mechanisms for multi-agent cooperation and secure off-chain payments.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at Memorial University of Newfoundland
English, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
java4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RightMesh/microraiden-java
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 17 days
raidenjavaraiden-network
comey/my-full-stack-dapp
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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