Dawn Song is a Chinese American academic and is a professor at the

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, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. She received a

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in 2010.

Education

Song earned her B.S. (1996) from

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, her M.S. (1999) from Carnegie Mellon University, and her Ph.D. (2002) from the

Career

Song became an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2002–2007) before joining the faculty at the

in 2007. Song's work focuses on computer security, 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 The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

, an NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a

. In 2009, the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...

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named Song as one of the top 35 innovators in The World under the age of 35. She was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy".

References

External links

"Dawn Song", ''DBLP''
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