Seminar Series: Security
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Ilia Shumailov (Google Deepmind), Beyond model.generate(): Can I Even Tell What Is Going On and Why It Matters
Ilia Shumailov is a research scientist formerly at Google DeepMind, where he focused on machine learning security and adversarial vulnerabilities.
CSSI-DACSS Joint Seminar: Matthias Roesti (Brown University & University of St. Gallen)
Please save the date for this CSSI event—updated event info will be posted on http://www.cssi.umass.edu/events.
UMass AI&Sec Fall'25 Seminar: Arman Zharmagambetov, Security and Privacy Evaluation of Autonomous AI Agents
Arman Zharmagambetov is a research scientist in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta. His research primarily focuses on machine learning and...
UMass AI&Sec Fall '25 Seminar: Tingwei Zhang, Exposing and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in Multi-Modal Representations
Tingwei Zhang is a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech, advised by Professor Vitaly Shmatikov.
UMass AI&Sec Fall '25 Seminar: Matthew Wright, Towards an All-in-One Media Forensics Tool
Matthew Wright, PhD, is the Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Ryan McKenna (Google), Private Analytics and Learning at Google
In this talk, McKenna will give a broad overview of how they think about the many dimensions of data privacy at Google.
UMass AI&Sec Fall'25 Seminar: Benjamin Laufer, AI Ecosystems: Structure, Strategy, Risk and Regulation
The development of artificial intelligence is increasingly shaped by interactions between general-purpose model creators, downstream fine-tuners, regulators...
Seminar: Adam Bates (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Don’t shout “Bingo!” Understanding (and Addressing) the Shortcomings of Enterprise Threat Detection Products
We are still awful at preventing data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. In this talk, Adam Bates will describe our efforts to better understand...
UMass AI&Sec Fall'25 Seminar: Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Terms of Care: Designing Participatory Data Governance for Disability Communities
Madiha Zahrah Choksi is a PhD candidate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell Tech.
UMass AI&Sec Fall '25 Seminar: Kathrin Grosse, From Practical Machine Learning Security to AI Security Incident Reporting
Kathrin Grosse is a Research Scientist at IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on AI security in the industry.
UMass AI&Sec Fall'25 Seminar: Ali Naseh, Security Vulnerabilities in Generative Model Leaderboards
Generative model leaderboards have become a widely used way for developers and practitioners to discover and adopt state-of-the-art models across modalities...
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Jonas Geiping, Increasing Trust through New Benchmarks and Measuring Model Oversight
Jonas Geiping is a Research Group Leader at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.