Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley
A UC Berkeley professor who works on computer security and adversarial machine learning and co-directs the Berkeley RDI center.
Dawn Song is a Chinese American professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a BS from Tsinghua University in 1996, an MS from Carnegie Mellon in 1999 and a PhD from UC Berkeley in 2002, was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon from 2002 to 2007, and joined Berkeley in 2007, where she co-directs the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).
Her work addresses computer security, including web and systems security and the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, where her team placed among the top seven finalists, and more recently adversarial machine learning and blockchains. She co-founded Oasis Labs in 2018, a blockchain privacy startup, and co-founded Virtue AI in 2024. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010, a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, MIT Technology Review's TR35 in 2009, and election as an ACM Fellow in 2019.
Received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010 for her work in computer security.
Co-founded Oasis Labs in 2018, a startup using blockchain technology for privacy, and Virtue AI in 2024.
Co-directs the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence, a campus-wide center at UC Berkeley.