Andy Yen

Concerned citizen, Scientist, Startup, Technologist

Andy Yen is a co-founder of ProtonMail, an encrypted email startup based in Geneva, Switzerland which seeks to make secure communications accessible. ProtonMail was founded in 2013 by a group of young scientists who met while working at CERN and were drawn together by a shared vision of protecting civil liberties. Led also by fellow co-founders Wei Sun and Jason Stockman, the ProtonMail team works to advance internet security and protect online privacy rights by developing the technology that makes it possible for common people to incorporate encryption into their everyday lives. A particle physicist and economist by training, Andy has worked on distributed and parallel computing systems for both high energy physics and quantitative finance applications. Since 2010, Andy has worked on the ATLAS experiment at CERN where his research focus has been on searches for supersymmetric particles. Today, he uses his experience in large scale computing to build the computing infrastructure that is used to run ProtonMail.