Jason Zhang Jason Zhang recently joined Lastline as a senior threat researcher. As a highly motivated cyber threat researcher and a proven product and technology pioneer, Jason has a wealth of experience in technology, product R&D. He has been a speaker at many events including Black Hat, InfoSec, Hacktivity and IEEE Workshops. It's no surprise that Jason's work has been reported by leading IT/cybersecurity news websites including The Register, eWeek, IDG, Focus, ZDNet, SC Magazine and PC Magazine. Prior to joining Lastline, Jason worked at MessageLabs (then Symantec) and Sophos with various research roles after earning a Ph.D. in digital signal processing from King's College London & Cardiff University. As an innovator and a passionate advocate of technology and innovation, Jason constantly looks into business improvement from both strategic and operational perspectives, and transforms engineering ideas into solutions and products. Jason initiated an innovative AI/ML project at Sophos, which successfully leverages heuristic rules statistically for malware detection. The proposed approach significantly outperforms major commercial anti-virus scanners and exhibits great commercial value. Part of the work has been published at Black Hat Asia 2019. Apart from his professional career, Jason cares about charity and disaster/humanitarian relief. In 2008 he set up a donation appeal for Chinese earthquake at MessageLabs (now part of Symantec) and raised over $6000 for earthquake victims.