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ACTION at the Strategically Leveraging AI in Education Conference

Giovanni Vigna delivered an invited presentation at the 2024 virtual conference on Strategically Leveraging AI in Education. His presentation, "Cyber Threat Intelligence in the New AI Era" gave an overview of the ACTION AI Institute's mission and goals. Also speaking was the INVITE AI Institute Director, H. Chad Lane.

Schedule

Statistical Methods in Cyber Security at JSM 2024

Xiaoming Huo and Bin Yu organized an invited session at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM 2024), on the topics of “statistical methods in cyber security.” Participating ACTION faculty included Jie Gao, Bo Li, and Radha Poovendran.

ACTION Featured in GRIT Talk

UCSB Computer Science professor Christopher Kruegel will present "AI for Security, Security for AI" as part of this year's series of GRIT talks at UCSB.

The GRIT talk series (presenting Ground-breaking Research/Innovative Technology at UCSB) began as part of UCSB's Summer Research Mentorship Program for high school students but quickly grew in popularity. The presentations are now available to the community, in-person in Campbell Hall or watched asynchronously on UCTV. 

ACTION Distinguished Lecture: Claudionor Coelho Jr., Chief AI Officer of ZScaler, Inc.

The Mythical LLM-Month: Building Trustworthy Copilots and AutoPilots

Claudionor N. Coelho Jr, PhD/MBA
Chief AI Officer, Zscaler Inc

Date: Friday, May 31
Time: 1:00 pm PT
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/S8cop6_wDqQ

Abstract

Local High School Reflection on Hacking Experience

Alex Ortiz, a student at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, reflected on the School for Scientific Thought experience by interviewing Stijn Pletinckx and Ilya Grishchencko, two researchers in the UCSB SecLab who collaborate with the ACTION Institute. 

ACTION Distinguished Lecture: Snehal Antani, CEO of Horizon3.ai

Go Hack Yourself: More War Stories from ~50k Pentests

Snehal Antani, CEO
Horizon3.ai

2 May 2024
1:00 pm PT (4:00 pm ET)

https://youtu.be/VXPpjttpVMY

U Washington Research on LLM Jailbreaking in Science Explorer Magazine

Journalist Kathryn Hulick included research from Fengqing Jiang and Radha Poovendran at the University of Washington in her article titled, "Jailbreaks bring out the evil side of chatbots." Specifically, she referenced Jiang's

CERIAS Holds their 25th Annual Cyber Security Symposium at Purdue

The 25th annual (1999-2024) CERIAS Security Symposium brought together researchers, scientists, academics, and industry professionals to hear prestigious keynote addresses, thought provoking panel discussions, and innovative lighting and technology talks.