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Dr. Xinran Wang is Chief Security Scientist at Shape Security. He was previously at Palo Alto Networks, where he headed malware research and led the design and development of the WildFire product. With over nine years of experience in security research and 14 patents in crimeware, botnet, and malicious domain/IP detection, he is an authority on modern malware detection. Wang has been invited to speak at top security conferences including Black Hat, Virus Bulletin, Usenix security, and the ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). He previously started a company (http://dayzerosystems.com) based on his doctoral research while attending Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on system and software security. Earlier in his career, he was a software engineer at IBM.