Dawn Song


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. from Tsinghua University, her M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Song became an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.
Song's work focuses on computer security, machine learning, and blockchain.

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".