“Towards Robust & Secure AI Agents in Open-World” with Professor Shafkat Islam

Computer Science and CIVS Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Ensuring secure and robust AI agents in open-world environments is vital to counter emerging cyber threats. This talk presents three research directions:

1. an environment-agnostic, evidence-based framework for assessing AI robustness,
2. analysis and defense against triggerless backdoor attacks in federated learning, and
3. orchestration and monitoring strategies for resilient, fault-tolerant computation in heterogeneous platforms.

Meet the Speaker

Shafkat Islam

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Shafkat Islam is an assistant professor and the director of the Trustworthy, Robust & Secure Intelligent Systems (TRUST-IT) lab in the computer science department at Purdue University Northwest.

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