Austin Bunn is an associate professor in Cornell University’s Department of Performing & Media Arts, where he teaches screenwriting and playwriting. Mr. Bunn won the 2017 Carpenter Memorial Advising Award for his work helping students connect with professionals in film, television, theatre, and media. As a filmmaker, he co-wrote the script for ”Kill Your Darlings,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He has also written feature screenplays for Fox 2000, Lionsgate, Participant Media, and Page1, and he has served as a mentor at the Screenwriters Colony (Nantucket) and Outfest Screenwriting Lab. Mr. Bunn’s award-winning short films “Lavender Hill” and “In the Hollow” have screened nationally and internationally at various film festivals. He is also the author of the short-story collection “The Brink,” which was selected as a Lamdba Lit finalist and for the Electric Literature “Best Short Story Collection of 2015.” Mr. Bunn worked for nearly a decade as a journalist, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere.
A Life Making Your Software Secure and Your Data Private… or Trying To
Event Overview
Mr. Erlingsson’s career has taken him from working on computer security for startups deCODE and GreenBorder Technologies (which sold to Google), to stints at Microsoft Research and Google, to his latest role as the Head of Machine Learning Privacy Technologies at Apple. He focuses on utilizing artificial intelligence to design secure, dependable software and privacy protections. With a longtime interest in programming languages and systems, Mr. Erlingsson holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a Ph.D. minor in English literature with a focus on Modernism, both from Cornell University.
What You'll Learn
- Best practices for entrepreneurs, consumers, and technologists in securing data and software from exploits and improving data privacy measures
- What technical leadership and R&D looks like at Microsoft Research, Google, and Apple
Speakers
Baobao Zhang is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Department of Government at Cornell University. In Fall 2021, she will be an assistant professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Ms. Zhang’s current research focuses on the governance of artificial intelligence (AI), studying public and elite opinion toward AI and how the American welfare state could adapt to the increasing automation of labor. Her previous research covered a wide range of topics, including the politics of the U.S. welfare state, attitudes towards climate change, and survey methodology. Ms. Zhang’s work has been published in PLOS One, Political Analysis, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and Nature Climate Change.
Ulfar Erlingsson (Cornell Ph.D. 2004, CIS) is Head of Machine Learning Privacy Technologies at Apple, where he leads technology efforts that enable machine learning with strong privacy guarantees. Since the mid 1990s, Mr. Erlingsson’s career has centered on research and advanced development of computer security and privacy technologies, most often with systems building and programming language bents. This includes a decade in technical leadership at Google, as well as stints at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, and as an Associate Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland. He has also led the computer security and privacy technology at two startups: GreenBorder Technologies and deCODE Genetics. Mr. Erlingsson holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a Ph.D. minor in English literature from Cornell University, where he currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
Austin Bunn is an associate professor in Cornell University’s Department of Performing & Media Arts, where he teaches screenwriting and playwriting. Mr. Bunn won the 2017 Carpenter Memorial Advising Award for his work helping students connect with professionals in film, television, theatre, and media. As a filmmaker, he co-wrote the script for ”Kill Your Darlings,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He has also written feature screenplays for Fox 2000, Lionsgate, Participant Media, and Page1, and he has served as a mentor at the Screenwriters Colony (Nantucket) and Outfest Screenwriting Lab. Mr. Bunn’s award-winning short films “Lavender Hill” and “In the Hollow” have screened nationally and internationally at various film festivals. He is also the author of the short-story collection “The Brink,” which was selected as a Lamdba Lit finalist and for the Electric Literature “Best Short Story Collection of 2015.” Mr. Bunn worked for nearly a decade as a journalist, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere.
Baobao Zhang is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Department of Government at Cornell University. In Fall 2021, she will be an assistant professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Ms. Zhang’s current research focuses on the governance of artificial intelligence (AI), studying public and elite opinion toward AI and how the American welfare state could adapt to the increasing automation of labor. Her previous research covered a wide range of topics, including the politics of the U.S. welfare state, attitudes towards climate change, and survey methodology. Ms. Zhang’s work has been published in PLOS One, Political Analysis, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and Nature Climate Change.
Ulfar Erlingsson (Cornell Ph.D. 2004, CIS) is Head of Machine Learning Privacy Technologies at Apple, where he leads technology efforts that enable machine learning with strong privacy guarantees. Since the mid 1990s, Mr. Erlingsson’s career has centered on research and advanced development of computer security and privacy technologies, most often with systems building and programming language bents. This includes a decade in technical leadership at Google, as well as stints at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, and as an Associate Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland. He has also led the computer security and privacy technology at two startups: GreenBorder Technologies and deCODE Genetics. Mr. Erlingsson holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a Ph.D. minor in English literature from Cornell University, where he currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
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