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born 1974 United States

Boaz Barak (Hebrew: בועז ברק, born 1974) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Harvard University.

United States
Computer scientists

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In recent years my focus has been onfoundations of machine learning and safety of artificial intelligence systems.

I have written numerous blog posts and opinion articles on this matter.

Students in my class have been on both sides of the campus divide.

I helped organize an open letter denouncing antisemitism.

As a member of the technical staff at OpenAI.

I have not discussed these issues at all.

I am a member of the scientific board of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

I am a theoretical computer scientist, and have worked on computational complexity, algorithms, cryptography, quantum computing.

I am a professor of computer science, and students take my courses to learn the fundamental capabilities and limitations of computing devices.

Starting in the Fall of 2025 I will be part time at Harvard as a Catalyst Professor and part time at OpenAI.

Two of them asked for more leniency in academic assignments because of their involvement in campus activism, one with a Jewish and the other with a Muslim one.

I am also a member of the advisory board of the wonderful Quanta magazine. See my CV for past activities.

I am a member of Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.

I was on the steps of Harvard’s Widener Library, taking part in a vigil for the victims of Hamas’s terrorist attack.

Member of the editorial board of the Theory of Computing Journal (ToC) and the Electronic Colloquium of Computational Complexity.

Board member and co organizer of Addis Coder as well as Jam Coders.

I am a professor of Computer Science at Harvard University.

I’m an Israeli American tenured professor, and I felt it was my duty to stand up for Jewish and Israeli students.

I was an associate professor at Princeton University’s Computer Science department.

I hold a Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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