Artificial Adversarial Intelligence
cybersecurity, disinformation, evolutionary algorithms, deep learning, coevolution
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence |
Understanding Programs & Programming |
Data Analytics |
Our goal is to computationally replicate Adversarial Intelligence: the intent, strategy, and tactics that are featured when adversaries compete and learn.
ALFA News!
Dr. Una-May O'Reilly in Forbes
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Una-May O'Reilly is the leader of ALFA Group at MIT-CSAIL. ALFA's technical approaches include machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and modsim (modeling and simulation). Dr. O'Reilly conducts research in Artificial Adversarial Intelligence and applies her studies to cyber and information security. She educates the forthcoming generation of data scientists and security specialists, teaching them how to develop state of art techniques that ensure security. Her passion is securing cyber systems and information about climate action. |
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Recent News
2023
May
ALFA member Shashank Srikant (aka "Shash") defends his Ph.D Thesis!
Understanding Computer Programs - Computational and Cognitive Perspectives
https://shashank-srikant.github.io/notes/thesis/
2022
April
Seeking Deep Understanding in Machine Learning
Podcast Spotlight Una-May O'Reilly
MIT-CSAIL Alliances
January
ALFA welcomes a new postdoc, Stephen Moskal.
Stephen is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology. His research career throughout his MS and PhD degrees involved the understanding of cyber attack behaviors, how to identify them, and then simulate their impacts. His dissertation (defended in Dec. 2021) called “HeAT-PATRL” leveraged multiple deep learning AI techniques to discover cyber attack campaigns with in real-world IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) dataset. His work focuses on practical and deployable solutions to cyber attack problems.
2021
October
Adversarial Intelligence
Una-May O'Reilly
Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts Series, Amhurst College, 2021
September
ALFA welcomes new PhD Candidates Aruna Sankaranarayanan & Michael Wang
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence
Una-May O'Reilly
Keynote, UK Workshop on Computation Intelligence, UKCI, 2021.
July
ALFA PhD Candidate, Shashank Srikant's research in collaboration with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is featured in The Economist and WIRED!
AI is transforming the coding of computer programs (full article)
Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code (full article)
June
ALFA welcomes summer UROPs: Ness Vera, Muhua Xu, Eileen Li. We bid farewell to research intern, Sasha Shashkov.
Congratulations to Diana Flores for the completion of her M.Eng degree.
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence: Code Model Attacks and Robustness
Una-May O'Reilly
Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Computer Vision Systems and Online Challenges (AML-CV), Workshop at CVPR, 2021
April
ALFA PhD Candidate, Shashank Srikant's research in collaboration with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is featured in MIT News! Full Article: Toward deep-learning models that can reason about code more like humans
March
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Cognitive Neuroscience Helping AI Understand Computer Programs MIT Inside Track, Meet the Researcher |
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Generating Adversarial Computer Programs using Optimized Obfuscations MIT-IBM Watson AI lab, Cambridge MA |
Enabling Autonomous Cyber Security
Spotlight on Cyber Research: From Lab-to-Market
Una-May O'Reilly
MIT Technology Review in Association with Dartrace
CSAIL Alliances Student Spotlight: Shashank Srikant, PhD Candidate, discusses his research in understanding programs and programming.
February
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence
Una-May O'Reilly
Mongomery Blair High School Computer Science Club, Silver Spring MD, 2021
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence
Una-May O'Reilly
Weekeng, IEEE Student Branch, Istanbul Turkey, 2021
ALFA welcomes new students to students this semester: Avital Baral, MEng, Helen Landwehr, TPP Lincoln Laboratory Military Fellow, and UROPs: Haimoshri Das, Xinhe Zhou, Ray Dedhia, Evan Rubel. Sasha Shashkov returns as a reserach intern.
January
Getting Adversarial AI to Secure Us From Hackers
Una-May O'Reilly
India Science Festival, 2021
We bid farewell to Postdoc Associate, Chathika Gunaratne. Chathika is off on a new adventure and has taken a positon at Oakridge National Lab.
ALFA says goodbye to PhD Candidate, Bryn Reinstadler. Bryn will be taking up a position at Novartis.
ALFA welcomes new member Andrew Grant, Game & AI Developer.
