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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.
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

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...
Event date Friday, October 24, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Monday, September 22, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Monday, October 20, 2025 Event time 10:00 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

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.
Event date Monday, September 8, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, November 21, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Monday, September 29, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Monday, October 27, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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