About

Benjamin is a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student working on applications of machine learning and statistics to computer security. He collaborates with his advisor Peter Bartlett, Anthony Joseph's group in the RAD Lab, Dawn Song, and Intel Research Berkeley. Recently he won a Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge prize for his research into the security of learning, and the best poster award at RAID08 for his work in internet measurement. He has also co-authored a Yahoo! Research patent submission on online ad bidding. Benjamin has been an active member of the Berkeley CSGSA, as President and founding member of the society's Industry Liaison Committee. In these roles he successfully represented student instructors to the Department, raised funding, remodeled the graduate student lounge, founded an EECS graduate movie night with almost 50 screenings, co-ran weekly social hours, and co-organized panels with distinguished industry researchers and entrepreneurs.

Education

UC Berkeley

Ph.D. , Computer Science

Class of 2010

Awards & Publications