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.
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.
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 Fall'25 Seminar: Saeed Mahloujifar, How Much Can Language Models Memorize
In this talk, I’ll unpack the conceptual and practical challenges in defining memorization, propose a new definition based on Kolmogorov complexity, and show...
Seminar | Improving the Ends and the Means: Designing AI Systems to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
This talk will present the last decade of the speaker's research, technology development, and policy advocacy at the intersection of ML/AI and child safety.