Trustworthy Machine Learning: Past, Present, and Future

Speaker: Somesh Jha received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Clarke (a Turing award winner). Currently, he is the Lubar Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His work focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently, he has focussed his interest on privacy and adversarial ML (AML). He has published several articles in highly-refereed conferences and prominent journals and has won numerous best-paper and distinguished-paper awards. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.