Dr Yuanyuan Zhang is Research Fellow in the Center for Digital Trust and Society at the University of Manchester. Dr Zhang was awarded the esteemed 2018 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Hannan grant to present at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings in Canada, where she presented her paper entitled “Ethereum: Bitcoin 2.0 - taking the road less travelled”. She also designed and developed the Shiny app (interactive data Visualisation dashboard) for cloudy with a chance of pain project for the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis (CfE), University of Manchester. Her research interests include statistical modelling, anomaly fraud detection, distribution theory and data science with applications to finance and blockchain.