CyberSec Seminar May 2023

9 May 2023, 10:30 am, Triangel Open Space

For this month's seminar, our speakers are:

Abstract: Research communication makes or breaks a project, and often projects achieving important results break because those results were poorly communicated. Therefore, researchers need to learn to collaborate on the communication prior to submission. The method to this end is called roundtabling, and in this talk roundtabling will be presented as a method of the research and then tested on the writing provided by attendees. In this way, the talk combines theory and practice in one.

  • Achyut Hedge (Intelligent System Security): Manipulating Model-Agnostic Explanations

Abstract: Explaining the decisions of learning-based systems is essential to analyzing the correctness of the results. It is paramount that methods used to generate explanations themselves are faithful. Model-dependent (white box) explanation methods have proven to be vulnerable to manipulation recently. What about model-agnostic (black box) explanation methods? I will talk about black box explanations and their vulnerabilities to manipulations.