Allen

About Allen.

Allen is a Security Researcher who works on research and audits with a focus on smart contract security and cryptography. He is currently on a temporary break from Seoul National University, where he double majors Mathematics and Computer Science.

Along with Paul, Allen won HITCON, SECCON as a member of the Super Guesser CTF team and also qualified for the DEFCON Finals. In the team, he is in charge of solving cryptography and smart contract security challenges. He is also experienced in DeFi asset management and blockchain service development, and uses this experience to help him do audits well.

He has been deeply involved in the Competitive Programming community and has won the 2nd prize in Samsung Collegiate Programming Contest 2020 and the Silver Prize in ACM-ICPC Seoul Regional 2019. He also currently has the 1st rank in Project Euler in South Korea. As a high school student, he went in for math olympiad, becoming a candidate for the IMO Korean National Team. This math experience and love of cryptography lead him to study zero knowledge proofs.