Salvatore J. Stolfo

"believe my duty as a professor is to mentor students and other young scientists to get excited to learn and to contribute to the very long conversation exploring hard questions in computer science."

"I hope to empower my students to make progress in science and in their own lives. To date, the 34 or so PhD students who I have worked with are as important in my professional life as are my four real children in my life."

"There is no beating around the bush in this Brooklyn-kid-gone-Ivy."

"After working with large datasets of credit card transactions, I learned that humans are remarkably predictable - at least where money is concerned."

"Fraud detection research with Citibank led to my interest in developing automated machine learning infrastructures and applying this infrastructure to security problems. The JAM project (Java Agents for Meta-learning) was way ahead of its time."

"I am quite proud to have started a line of work now pursued by many – including investors: machine learning applied to security problems."