Dawn Song is a distinguished Chinese American academic and computer security expert. She currently serves as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, a position she has held since 2007. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Song was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007.

She earned her B.S. from Tsinghua University in 1996, her M.

S. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, and her Ph.D.