Ms. Yuyang Rao (TZ) is a scientist specializing in MEV in the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems with nearly 6 years of experience in Web3 entrepreneurship and development in blockchain infrastructure, DeFi contracts, NFT finance, etc. She has participated in multiple ETHGlobal Hackathons and has won championship titles in the finals. She has founded the Generation Alpha Research Crypto quantitative fund and served as an arbitrage and MEV Bot quantitative analyst. She has also been a lecturer in DeFi at Dapp-Learning.

TZ holds Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in Geophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.