Zhiyun Qian
Everett And Imogene Ross Professor At University Of California, Riverside at University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhiyun Qian is a computer and network security researcher and professor at UC Riverside, currently the Everett and Imogene Ross Professor, with 11+ years of academic and industry experience spanning NEC Labs, Microsoft Research and Cisco. He leads security-focused research and mentorship, actively recruiting students with practical hacking skills and a strong curiosity for adversarial techniques. Trained in software engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong) and computer science (MS/PhD, Michigan), he marries rigorous academic foundations with hands-on systems and networking experience. Known for the maxim "Ideas are bulletproof," he balances theoretical advances with real-world exploit and defense insights, and maintains an accessible lab presence for students and collaborators.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of MichiganBS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (1)
hexo6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
paranoidq/wcg2.0
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:138 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
paranoidq/upagile
Jan 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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