Alex Stamos (Stanford)
September 2, 2022 at 11:00 AM on Zoom / Soda Hall
Trust & Safety: An exciting research frontier with real human impact
Abstract: After graduating from Cal EECS and rising to the top of the security teams at Yahoo and Facebook, our speaker has spent the last four years trying to build an interdisciplinary program to study and mitigate online harms at the Stanford Internet Observatory. We will talk about the differences between safety and traditional CS security research, the lessons the speaker has learned putting together a trust and safety class, journal and textbook, and what kind of interesting open research projects exist for undergraduates, grad students and faculty. We will close with some career advice for students and the opportunity to ask questions about applying security skills in the real world.
Bio: Alex Stamos is the Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and a Partner in the Krebs Stamos Group. He has investigated spies breaking into critical enterprises, helped ship encryption to billions and is generally consider the Forest Gump of InfoSec for his ability to be in the wrong place at the right time. He has a BS in EECS from Cal and is the proud owner of the CALEECS license plate, which he has to constantly replace as Stanford frat boys steal it.