Dawn Song
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Dawn Song | |
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| 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]
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

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 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]