Fan Zhang is an assistant professor at Yale Computer Science who researches secure and decentralized systems. Fan Zhang's Twitter Score is 40 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #26,987 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Fan Zhang also works at Chainlink Labs and is affiliated with the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts. Previously, Fan Zhang worked at Cornell University and Cornell Tech. Fan Zhang's account has 4,592 followers as of July 2026 and 506 posts.
Fan Zhang co-authored the Town Crier paper, a foundational work on authenticated data feeds for smart contracts published as a Cryptology ePrint paper, and co-authored DECO, a protocol for liberating web data using decentralized oracles over TLS. Both works found practical adoption: Chainlink integrated Town Crier in 2018 and integrated DECO in 2020, bringing both research contributions into production blockchain infrastructure.
Fan Zhang has been mentioned by 27 accounts, with 48 total mentions.
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