About

Yahsin Huang

Yahsin Huang is a researcher focused on the democratization of digital tools, asking how open-source software empowers individuals. She studies digital governance, analyzing interactions among actors such as the EU, the UN, nation-states, international NGOs, and open-source developers. At the Graduate Institute of European Studies, Wenzao Ursuline University (WZU), in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, she is writing her master’s thesis on the EU Cyber Resilience Act and its implications for the open-source community.

Previously, she was operations manager at HashCloak, a Toronto-based security consultancy specializing in open-source cryptography, including zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multi-party computation (MPC). Earlier, she covered Taiwan’s open-source developer community as a magazine journalist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from National Dong Hwa University in Hualien, Taiwan.