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ACTION at Summit for Digital Trust

The Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) held the Second Annual Summit of Centers for Digital Trust in Glion, Switzerland in August 2024.

UCSB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

On August 15, 2024, ACTION AI was one of fifteen undergraduate summer research programs across UC Santa Barbara gathered for a research symposium and poster session. In total, there were 65 posters on display, spanning engineering, the sciences, and the social sciences. The symposium marked the end of an eight-week research experience, full of hands-on training, professional development, and networking opportunities for our scholars.

Finalists at the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge

DARPA announced the seven finalists of the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) at DEFCON 32. Of the nearly 40 teams with submissions, two of the finalist teams have ties to ACTION. Shellphish has their origins at UC Santa Barbara with Giovanni Vigna and many of the team members are current and former members of the UCSB SecLab.

AIVO Grants Available to ACTION Researchers

The AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO) is once again providing additional support to AI institutes through a variety of programs. All institutes, including ACTION, have access to funds that support travel, foreign collaboration, and hosting events for inter-institute community building. 

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.

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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

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