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...
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.
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 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...