Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (2004), and B.S. from Yale (1997). He is a Fellow of the ACM, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, MIT Technology Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), USENIX Internet Defense Prize, ComputerWorld
Magazine's Top 40 Technology Innovators award, IEEE ITC Early Career Award, and Faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. The award he's most proud of is the Community Impact Award from the Concept Art Association for his lab's work on Glaze and Nightshade. His work has been covered by many media outlets including New York Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and New Scientist. He has published over 190 articles in areas of security and privacy, machine learning, networking, and HCI.
