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Seminar Series: Security

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.
Event date Monday, April 7, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Anshuman Suri, White-box v/s Black-box: Privacy Auditing for Machine Learning

In this talk, Anshuman Suri will challenge these assumptions and demonstrate that optimal membership inference does require parameter access.
Event date Monday, February 3, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Norman Mu (xAI), A Closer Look at System Prompt Robustness

Norman Mu is a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, focusing on AI safety. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley...
Event date Monday, February 24, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Monday, April 28, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Sahar Abdelnabi, Evaluating and Securing LLM-Agentic Networks

Abdelnabi will discuss his work on evaluating multi-agent negotiations and how that can be beneficial to test reasoning and create evolving, dynamic benchmarks.
Event date Monday, February 10, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Andy Zou, Red Teaming AI Agents In-The-Wild: Revealing Deployment Vulnerabilities

This presentation demonstrates how red teaming uncovers critical vulnerabilities in AI agents that challenge assumptions about safe deployment.
Event date Monday, March 10, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

Jonathan Ullman, Auditing Differentially Private Machine Learning

How can researchers use sensitive datasets for machine learning and statistics without compromising the privacy of the individuals who contribute their data?
Event date Monday, September 23, 2024 Event time 4:00 pm Go to all events list Event

UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Javier Rando, Gradient-based Jailbreak Images for Multimodal Fusion Models

In this talk, Rando will introduce the notion of a tokenizer shortcut that approximates tokenization with a continuous function and enables continuous...
Event date Thursday, February 20, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

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