Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. at U.C. 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. His work 
has been covered by many media outlets including New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wall Street 
Journal, Forbes, and New Scientist. His current research focuses on mitigating the harms of misused AI. He has published 
over 190 articles in areas of security and privacy, machine learning, networking, and HCI. He served as TPC (co-)chair 
for the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2016) and ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018), and on the Steering 
Committee of IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML).