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Alexander Spangher
Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science
BioAlexander Spangher is a post-doctoral researcher advised by Daniel Ho, Sanmi Koyejo and Diyi Yang. His research focuses on modeling human decision-making in creative domains, especially in contexts where data is limited and rewards and goals are less clear. He is building out a new domain of learning, called emulation learning, with the goal of training the next generation of reasoning-oriented language models to be more proficient in these domains. His research has been used at technology organizations like OpenAI, Google and EleutherAI. He is especially passionate about helping journalists and has framed tasks and trained reasoning LLMs to help journalists find stories and sources, structure narratives and track information updates. These tools have been incorporated into newsrooms at the New York Times, Bloomberg and Stanford Big Local News, impacting thousands of journalists; and his work is also informing the next generation of journalistic education at USC Annenberg. His work has received numerous awards including two outstanding paper awards at EMNLP 2024, one spotlight award at ICML 2024, one outstanding paper award at NAACL 2022 and a best paper award at CJ2023; and he has been supported by a 4-year Bloomberg PhD Fellowship. His work is broad: in addition to his work in NLP and computational journalism, he has studied misinformation at Microsoft Research and collaborated with the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center to model plasma fusion processes.
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Alex Stamos
Adjunct Lecturer, Computer Science
BioAlex Stamos is a Lecturer in Computer Science and International Relations and teaches CS152 - Trust and Safety and INTPOL 268 - Intro to Cybersecurity. He has had a long career in the cybersecurity field, founding two companies (iSEC Partners and the Krebs Stamos Group) and serving as the Chief Security Officer of Yahoo, Facebook and SentinelOne. Between his CSO roles he founded the Stanford Internet Observatory, which conducted some of the first research on AI and child safety, created the first collegiate trust and safety computer-science course, and founded the Journal of Online Trust and Safety and the Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference.
Alex has spoken at the Munich Security Conference, NATO CyCon, DEF CON, Berkeley Data Edge, Blue Hat, CanSecWest, and keynoted USENIX Security, Web Summit and Black Hat and was a member of the DHS Cybersecurity Advisory Council, the Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy and the Aspen Commission on Information Disorder. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber Security Task Force, the Bay Area CSO Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Alex also served on the advisory board to NATO’s Collective Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia.
Stamos has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and children.
