| Bio: | Before joining Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in the summer of 2010, Ben completed his PhD at UC Berkeley under Peter Bartlett. His dissertation research focused on machine learning in computer security, and was based on work with Adam Barth, Peter Bartlett, Anthony Joseph, Dawn Song and Doug Tygar at Berkeley, John Mitchell at Stanford, and Ling Huang and Nina Taft at Intel Labs Berkeley. During this time Ben was awarded the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award in Adversarial Machine Learning, Best Poster Award at RAID¯¯¯08, and a Siebel Scholars fellowship. His current interests extend to applications of machine learning in privacy & security, search, measurement, social network analysis, and basic research questions in learning & statistics. |
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