Ben Zorn
Partner Researcher at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Zorn is an ACM and AAAS Fellow and a Partner Researcher in Microsoft Research’s Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group, specializing in programming language design and implementation for reliability, security, and performance. He earned a PhD from UC Berkeley, served on the University of Colorado Boulder CS faculty where he earned tenure, and has been at Microsoft Research since 1998. A long-time leader in the PL and SE communities, he has chaired PLDI, served on SIGPLAN leadership, edited flagship ACM journals, and contributed to ACM award committees and the CRA Board. His work blends deep theoretical insight with practical systems-building at scale, influencing both compilers and software tools used in industry research. Notably, his career combines sustained academic leadership with hands-on research management at Microsoft Research, shaping both technical directions and community standards. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he continues to drive research that bridges programming languages and real-world software reliability.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
testing9
prompt-engineering8
chatgpt8
excel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
microsoft/promptpex
Mar 2025 - Feb 2026
Test Generation for Prompts
Contributions:8 reviews, 29 PRs, 106 pushes in 11 months
chatgptgpt-4ollmsprompt-engineeringtesting
microsoft/genaiscript
Mar 2024 - May 2025
DEPRECATED
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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