Sam King (email)

Computer Science @ UC Davis

My research focus is on technology to manage Type 1 Diabetes. Managing Type 1 Diabetes is hard, and I believe that novel software, hardware, and AI can help make it easier.

I spent eight years in industry including time at two startups that I founded, Twitter, Lyft, and Stripe. I wrote a blog post about why I moved from academia to industry and back.

Previously I worked on computer security. My Research page shows a nice summary of some of my past projects, and my Publications page shows a full list of my publications.

Recent research highlights

  • Video: This 10 minute YouTube video provides an overview of our research program on how CS can help improve the lives of people living with Type 1 Diabetes.
  • Paper: Here is our first paper on Type 1 Diabetes! We go deep on security for automated insulin delivery systems.
  • Impact: Our humble UC Davis research software for scanning credit cards to prevent fraud has run on over 1 billion (!) devices. Some of the largest and most popular apps have used it for areas like food delivery, vacation rentals, mobile payments, grocery delivery, e-commerce, fashion, restaurants, and more. In the press here and here, and the papers about the systems that led directly to this impact are here (Boxer, DareDevil).