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Christopher Kruegel named as ACM Fellow

Dr. Christopher Kruegel was recently named to the 2023 Class of ACM Fellows for "contributions to systems security, malware detection, and vulnerability analysis." The full announcement from ACM is linked here.

Congratulations Chris!

Congratulations to the 2023 iCTF Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 International Capture the Flag! 

The top undergraduate team, the b01lers, hailed from Purdue University. This assembly of ten ambitious students climbed the ranks after a slow start, but then retained the lead, solidifying their reputation as formidable hackers.

UVA CS Distinguished Speaker: Z. Berkay Celik, Purdue

In an example of cross-pollination and collaboration, Purdue's Dr. Berkay Celik will deliver a distinguished lecture at the University of Virginia. 

December 1, 2023
8:00 am PST
University of Virginia

UW ECE students learn how to pack powerful technology into tiny electronic devices

University of Washington's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering spotlighted ACTION Co-PI Radha Poovendran's TinyML course, taught through the UW Professional Master's Program (PMP). The course represents one aspect of the ACTION Institute's continued educational outreach.

ACTION Seminar: Teodora Baluta

Unforgeability in Stochastic Gradient Descent

Teodora Baluta 
Computer Science
National University of Singapore

A Capture the Flag Competition (CTF) for High School and Undergraduate Students

With sponsorship from the ACTION Institute, the 2023 International Capture the Flag (iCTF) competition will incorporate themes around artificial intelligence and will have tracks for both high school students (iCTFhi) and undergraduate students (iCTFun). This novel security competition is being organized by Shellphish and the UCSB Women in Computer Science group.

UCSB Responsible ML Summit 2023

The ACTION Institute will co-sponsor UCSB's Center for Responsible Machine Learning 2023 Summit. 

Responsible Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges and Ethics This year's summit will cover topics including: Ethical and Legal Issues in Copyright, Societal Impacts of Generative AI, Co-existing with AI: The Human Alignment Problem, as well as algorithmic solutions to these problems.

Live stream: https://youtube.com/live/4ho3nvX7fjs

Column on new AI Institutes is now published in AI Magazine

A column, co-authored by Ashok Goel and Jim Donlon, and introducing the seven new NSF AI Institutes, is now published in AAAI's AI Magazine. The column provides a brief overview of each of the new institutes, as well as an overview of the AI Virtual Organization (AIVO), which was formed to strengthen the network of AI institutes and help them expand.

The column describes the ACTION Institute: