Greg Badros

Greg Badros earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Duke University. After founding the engineering team at a successful startup, he continued to graduate school and earned his masters and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. Starting at age 14, Greg has accumulated over a dozen research and trade publications and has spoken at numerous conferences internationally. 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. Greg joined facebook after over six years at Google where he was a Sr. Director of Engineering, having led the AdSense team from 2004-2007 and then the Gmail+ and Google Apps teams from 2007-2009. As an engineering director at Facebook, Greg works with advertising, commerce, data, and product teams across the organization. In his free time, he enjoys tennis, skiing, and home automation.