Dawn Song

American computer security expert

Not to be confused with Dawn song.

Dawn Song

Alma mater| Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley
Awards| MacArthur Fellowship (2010)
Scientific career
Fields| Electrical engineering, computer science
Institutions| Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley

Dawn Song is a Chinese American academic and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.[2]

She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.[3]

## Education

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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.[3]

## Career

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Song became an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2002–2007) before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.

Song's work addresses the computer security. Previously she worked on web security[4] and systems security, for example working on the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, where her team placed among the top seven finalists.[5] Her most recent work is understanding adversarial machine learning,[6] and blockchains.

Song is the Founder of Oasis Labs.[7] At UC Berkeley, Song is the co-Director of the campus-wide center: Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).[8]

## Recognition

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Song is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, a Guggenheim fellowship,[9] and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.[10] In 2009, the MIT Technology Review TR35 named Song as one of the top 35 innovators in The World under the age of 35.[11] She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy".[12]

## References

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1. ^ "Dawn Xiaodong Song's Home Page". Retrieved 2011-05-24.
2. ^ "Dawn Song | EECS at UC Berkeley". eecs.berkeley.edu. 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
3. ^ a b "Dawn Song". John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
4. ^ "Dawn Song's genius approach to web security - Mar. 18, 2011". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
5. ^ "DARPA | Cyber Grand Challenge". 2016-08-01. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
6. ^ "How malevolent machine learning could derail AI". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
7. ^ Barber, Gregory. "Oasis Labs' Dawn Song on a Safer Way to Protect Your Data". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
8. ^ "Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence at Berkeley". rdi.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
9. ^ "Dawn Song - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
10. ^ "UC Berkeley Press Release". Berkeley.edu. 2010-09-28. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
11. ^ "2009 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
12. ^ 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11

## External links

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* "Dawn Song", DBLP Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine

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