Summary
Zhen Hu is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with nine years of professional experience, specializing in video/audio encoding workflows and security for large-scale media systems. With a strong research background in program analysis and Android malware detection, he has deep expertise in Java, JVM internals, and bytecode-level static analysis gained during his graduate work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. At Amazon he builds automated encoding pipelines, subtitle conversion libraries, and addresses encoding-related security issues such as XSS and permission handling. He combines academic rigor—having optimized cross-domain analysis and semantic equivalence detection for Android apps—with practical cloud experience from an AWS internship where he integrated S3, CloudSearch, and RDS for dynamic search features. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, Zhen brings a rare blend of systems-level media engineering and program-analysis research that accelerates secure, scalable multimedia services.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Engineer, Computer Science and Engineer at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelor’s Degree Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor’s Degree Biology/Biological Sciences General at Shanghai Normal University
English, Chinese