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Computer Science Department Colloquium

Transparent Computing in the AI Era

 

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Monday, December 12, 2022, 10:30am

 

Speaker: Shiqing Ma

Bio

Shiqing Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2019 and B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on program analysis, software and system security, adversarial machine learning, and software engineering. His work on operating system transparency received Distinguished Paper Awards from NDSS 2016 and USENIX Security 2017, and his work on adversarial machine learning received Best Student Paper Awards from ECCV ARWO 2022 and ICTAI 2022.

Location : CoRE 301 + Virtual

Event Type: Computer Science Department Colloquium

Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have shifted how modern computing systems work, raising new challenges and opportunities for transparent computing. On the one hand, many AI systems are black boxes and have dense connections among their computing units, which makes existing techniques like dependency analysis fail. Such a new computing system calls for new methods to improve its transparency to defend against attacks against AI-powered systems, such as Trojan attacks. On the other hand, it provides a brand-new computation abstraction, which features data-driven computation-heavy applications. It potentially enables new transparent computing applications, typically involving large-scale data processing. In this talk, I will present my work in these two directions. Specifically, I will discuss the challenges in analyzing the deep neural network for security inspection and introduce our novel approach to examining Trojan behaviors. Later, I will talk about AI can help increase the information entropy of large security audit logs to enable efficient lossless compressed storage.

Contact  Matthew Stone

Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93287807626?pwd=V25pRGkrWTFqbTdadjN3WThyd1V3Zz09