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Dawn Song

b. 1975

American computer security expert, University of California, Berkeley

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About Dawn Song

Born 1975. Dawn Song is a Chinese computer scientist.

Dawn Song is a Chinese American academic and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.

She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.

Education Song earned her B.S. (1996) from Tsinghua University, her M.S. (1999) from Carnegie Mellon University, and her Ph.D. (2002) from the University of California, Berkeley. and systems security, for example working on the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, where her team placed among the top seven finalists. Her most recent work is understanding adversarial machine learning, and blockchains.

Song is the founder of Oasis Labs. At UC Berkeley, Song is the co-director of the campus-wide center: Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).

Recognition Song is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 2009, the MIT Technology Review TR35 named Song as one of the top 35 innovators in The World under the age of 35. She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy".

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Important facts

Born
1975
Birth century
Occupation
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University
Employers
University of California, Berkeley, Santa Fe Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; ACM Fellow

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Dawn Song's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Dawn Song?

American computer security expert, University of California, Berkeley

When was Dawn Song born?

Dawn Song was born in 1975.

What is Dawn Song's occupation?

Dawn Song is a computer scientist.

What nationality is Dawn Song?

Dawn Song is Chinese.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Dawn Song

· Wikidata: Q92701

· DBpedia: Dawn Song

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