Elie Bursztein leads Google's security & anti-abuse research, which helps protect users against Internet threats. His research focuses on advancing the state of applied-cryptography, machine learning for fraud and abuse, at risk user protections, and web security. He is the author of 60+ scholarly publications for which he received 6 best papers awards. Elie gave over 20 talks at leading industry conferences and received multiple industry awards including the Back Hat Pwnie award. He was invited to give over 20 guest lectures to numerous universities including Stanford, Berkely and Tsing Hua. Elie's work is regularly covered by major news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CBS, Forbes, Wired, the Huffington Post and CNN. Elie is a beret aficionado, tweets at @elie, and performs magic tricks in his spare time. Born in Paris, he received a Ph.D from ENS-cachan in 2008 before working at Stanford University and ultimately joining Google in 2011. He now lives with his wife in Mountain View, California.
