Seminar Series: Security
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.
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...
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.
CSSI-CDSAI-ISSR Joint Seminar: Incorporating AI in Social Science Research
Please save the date for this CSSI event, "Incorporating AI in Social Science Research," a joint seminar with the Center for Data Science and Artificial Int...
UMass AI&Sec Fall'25 Seminar: Ambra Demontis (University of Cagliari), The Security of Machine Learning Against Poisoning
A historical overview of poisoning attacks that manipulate training data to compromise the performance of machine learning systems at test time, along with...
UMass AI&Sec Fall 25 Seminar: Rebecca Portnoff, Safety by Design for Generative AI: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
This talk will unpack the tangible technical and policy solutions that can be implemented to prevent and combat AI-facilitated child sexual exploitation and...
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.
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.
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.