As part of this, Yan led&nbsp;Shellphish's participation in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, applying his research to the creation of a fully autonomous hacking system that won third place in the competition. Underpinning this system is angr, an open-source binary analysis project created by Yan (and others!) over the years. When he is not doing research, Yan is one of the hacking aces of the Shellphish computer hacking group, playing with them through cybersecurity competitions worldwide.<BR>