Zhi Xu
Senior Director Of Engineering at Netskope
California, United States
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Top SchoolZhi Xu is a Senior Director of Engineering based in California with 11 years of experience specializing in security, threat intelligence, and AI-driven automation. He leads development of threat protection products—malware detection, URL filtering, IPS, product security, and threat intelligence—currently at Netskope and previously driving WildFire R&D at Palo Alto Networks. Zhi blends deep research credentials (PhD-level work on mobile security and social-network privacy) with hands-on ML/AI application of security telemetry to stop real-world threats. He has a track record of moving research into production at scale and an uncommon combination of academic rigor and product delivery that accelerates threat detection pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Penn State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (2)
PaloAltoNetworks/research-notes
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 57 pushes in 24 days
PaloAltoNetworks/InstallerHijackingVulnerabilityScanner
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 2 days
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