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Computer Science and CIVS Distinguished Speaker Seminar<\/p>\n

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

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  2. analysis and defense against triggerless backdoor attacks in federated learning, and<\/li>\n
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    Meet the Speaker<\/h2>\n

    \"ShafkatShafkat Islam<\/a><\/p>\n

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science<\/p>\n

    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.<\/p>","excerpt":"

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