Seminar Series: Security
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...
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.
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: 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...