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Title: Neubauer Professor of Computer Science

Expertise: Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Database security and privacy, Computer networking, Machine learning

Departmental website: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ravenben/

Lab website: http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/

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