Alumni: Greg Badros

Greg Badros of ICSI's Board of Trustees

Greg Badros earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from Duke University. After founding the engineering team at a successful start-up, he entered graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in computer science and engineering. His doctoral work on the Cassowary Constraint Solving algorithm is now an integral part of Apple’s OS X (starting with Lion). He was first published at age 14. He joined Google, where he led AdSense from 2004 to 2007 and the Gmail+ and Google Apps teams from 2007 to 2009. In June 2009, he joined Facebook, where he is the vice president of engineering and products for three product groups: Search, Ads, and Gifts. His research interests include software engineering, declarative representations and constraint satisfaction, distributed systems, programming language design and implementation, and mechanism design for online advertising auctions.

Work Experience

  • Founder and CEO of Prepared Mind Innovations
  • Vice President of Engineering and Products, Search, Ads, and Gifts, Facebook
  • Senior Director of Engineering, Google
  • Chief Technical Architect, InfoSpace
  • Chief Architect, Go2Net

Education

  • PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, 2000
  • MsC, University of Washington, Seattle, 1998
  • BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics, Duke University, 1995

Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements

  • Early Career Diamond Award, University of Washington, 2012
  • Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1996-1999
  • First Place, IEEE National Programming Competition, 1995