Andy Yen

Andy Yen is a secure email developer and scientist at CERN.

TED Speaker Bio
"Andy Yen is a scientist at CERN. With two colleagues, Wei Sun and Jason Stockman, he co-founded ProtonMail, an encrypted email startup based in Geneva, Switzerland, that seeks to make secure email accessible. The group aims to advance internet security and protect online privacy rights by making it possible for everyone to incorporate encryption into their everyday communication... A physicist and economist by training, since 2010 Andy has been part of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, where his research focus has been on searches for supersymmetric particles. He is translating his experience in large-scale computing to build the infrastructure that is used to run ProtonMail." – Source: TED

Talks

 * Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again (October 2014)

Links

 * Digital Reboot: A sneak peek of session 2 at TEDGlobal 2014 by Kate Torgovnick May (October 7, 2014), TED Blog
 * Technological hopes and fears: A recap of session 2 of TEDGlobal 2014 (October 7, 2014), TED Blog