Brief Biography
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Brief bio: Boaz Barak is the Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, where he works on AI alignment and safety. Barak's research interests include safety of artificial intelligence, foundations of machine learning, and theoretical computer science. Barak has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the ACM dissertation award, Foreign Policy magazine's list of 100 leading global thinkers, Packard fellowship, and Sloan fellowship. He was also chosen to be a Simons investigator and a fellow of the ACM. Barak has served as a member for several scientific advisory boards, and is also a board member of AddisCoder, a non-profit organization for teaching algorithms and coding to high-school students in Ethiopia and Jamaica. Barak wrote with Sanjeev Arora the textbook "Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach".
For more information see Boaz Barak's CV.
