Fan Zhang is an assistant professor at Yale Computer Science who researches secure and decentralized systems. Fan Zhang's Twitter Score is 43 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #21,657 (top 5%) among 497,973 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 4,698 followers as of October 2026 and 520 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 30 accounts, with 53 total mentions.
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