The “In Focus” Speaker Series from the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity features industry leaders discussing the pivots and turns they have faced in their careers, the time between college and their first big breakthroughs, and the pathways that led to where they are now. In the series’ next installment, Ulfar Erlingsson, a leading technologist in Silicon Valley, will explore his professional biography in conversation with Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow BaoBao Zhang.
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.
