Draft:Yaron Singer
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{{AFC comment|1=$400M sale for Robust Intelligence is a lot of money, so this topic may meet notability. However, I note that much of the most notable coverage (including Forbes and Calcalist) surrounds that company, and Robust Intelligence does not have an article. I would recommend starting by creating that article with Yaron Singer and his bio as a subsection. It's a reasonable first cut at the article though the prose also needs a pass for some cleanup and for formatting. As an academic it's not clear that the researcher meets notability yet, though they likely will eventually. Caleb Stanford (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2025 (UTC)}}
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{{Short description|Theoretical Computer scientist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Yaron Singer
| nationality = American, Israeli
| occupation = Professor of Computer science
| alma_mater = UC Berkeley
| education = B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer science, Ph.D. in Computer science
| known_for = CEO of Robust Intelligence, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
}}
Yaron Singer (Hebrew: ירון זינגר, born 1979) is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and former Professor of Computer science at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Yaron Singer graduated in 2007 with a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer science from Tel Aviv University. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley under the supervision of Christos Papadimitriou.{{MathGenealogy|id=226008}} During his PhD, Singer introduced the concept of Budget-feasible mechanism design and an algorithmic solution for a broad class of problems.
{{cite web
|url=https://ieee-focs.org/FOCS-2010-Papers/Budget-Feasible-Mechanisms.pdf
|title=Budget Feasible Mechanisms
|publisher=IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
|date=23 October 2010}}.
Academic Career
After graduation, Singer spent two years as a research scientist at Google Brain from 2011 to 2013. In 2013 Singer started a position as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of Harvard University, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. His tenure at Harvard was announced in early 2020 when he was appointed the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
{{cite web
|url=https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/02/yaronsinger-granted-tenure
|title=Yaron Singer Granted Tenure
|website= Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
|publisher=Harvard
|date=11 February 2020}}.
During his time at Harvard, Singer made several breakthroughs in the fields of algorithms and machine learning. This includes his work showing how to achieve an exponential speedup in the submodular set function optimization which are heavily used in unsupervised learning.
{{cite web
|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-optimization-algorithm-exponentially-speeds-computation
|title=New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation
|website=IEEE Spectrum
|publisher=IEEE
|date=
5 July 2018
}}.
Robust Intelligence
Shortly after being granted tenure, Singer left Harvard and raised 14 Million dollars from Sequoia Capital to start the AI Security company Robust Intelligence
{{cite web
|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2020/10/21/robust-intelligence-adversarial-machine-learning-series-a-sequoia/
|title=This Harvard Professor And His Students Have Raised $14 Million To Make AI Too Smart To Be Fooled By Hackers
|date= 21 October 2020
|work=Forbes}}
and a year later raised an additional 30 Million from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global.
{{cite web
|url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/09/robust-intelligence-raises-30m-series-b-to-stress-test-ai-models/
|title=Robust Intelligence Raises $30M To Stress Test AI Models
|date= 9 December 2021
|website=TechCrunch
}}
In summer of 2024 Cisco acquired Robust Intelligence for a reported $400 million.
{{cite web
|url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjgsb5npa
|title=Inside Yaron Singer's surprising $400M sale to Cisco
|date= 22 September 2024
|website=Calcalist
}}
References
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