SaTML is looking for a host for #SaTML2027! If you're interested in bringing SaTML to a city near you, please fill out this form by April 15! 🏘️🏙️🏡🌆
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The program chairs for #SaTML2027 will be Fabio Pierazzi (@fbpierazzi.bsky.social) and Florian Tramèr! We're in for a great conference under their leadership.

Breaking news from NDSS26: it seems that we have won a Distinguished Paper Award for "Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human-LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering"

A giant thank you to my amazing co-authors and everyone who participated in the experiment!

Although we had secretly planned a small extension, we realized that the initial deadline was off by one… month 😵‍💫 Thus, we are now extending the submission deadline for the "Explainable AI and Security" (XAISEC) workshop:

🌐 https://xaisec-workshop.org
⏱️Deadline: J̶a̶n̶ ̶2̶9̶t̶h̶ Feb 26th, 2026 (AoE)

Deadline approaching soon: February 15th, 2026

Are you a UK/Home student interested in doing a PhD researching hybrid AI threats at the intersection of cyber and physical security? Then you should apply to my PhD project within the CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk!

PhD students in AI: Bell Labs Cambridge is hiring Summer 2026 interns in Social & #ResponsibleAI.

Paid, 3 months, visa support, publication-focused.
Work on AI ethics, risk, governance, and human values.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2026.

If you are interested in this topic area (which can be adapted to your interests), do get in touch with us before submitting your application.

Other useful links:
fabio.pierazzi.com
sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-Physical Risk Through cross-disciplinary research and industry collaboration, we offer fully funded PhD studentships to train experts who can tackle emerging hybrid threats spanning digital and physical spaces.

Programme Description: www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...
How to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...
Project details: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...

This is a competitive opportunity, and only the top candidates will be selected by the CDT.

Project title: Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Threats to AI-enabled Devices in Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS)
Application deadline: February 15th, 2026

... on AI-enabled devices in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). This research will develop novel risk assessment methodologies to identify and mitigate threats in smart home automation, industrial IoT, and beyond.

Are you passionate about AI security and its impact on the real world? If you are eligible for "UK Home" fees, then consider applying for this PhD project with myself and Anna Maria Mandalari, where you will explore the risks of adversarial attacks...

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-Physical Risk Through cross-disciplinary research and industry collaboration, we offer fully funded PhD studentships to train experts who can tackle emerging hybrid threats spanning digital and physical spaces.

[1/n] Opportunity to apply for a Fully-funded PhD Position (Home/UK candidates only) in the "CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk" at @ucl.ac.uk and @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk , with myself and Anna Maria Mandalari (deadline: Feb 15, 2026)

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's third test of time award: "Cujo: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive-By-Download Attacks" by Konrad Rieck, Tammo Krueger, and Andreas Dewald published in ACSAC 2010. 👏👏👏

📅 Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 at 1pm
🌍 Open to home & international students
💡 Interested? Contact us via email with subject "UELA Project 2531bd1649"

Note: Competitive selection across UCL departments.

Project title: "Rethinking Intrusion Detection with Advanced AI for Explainable, Robust and Cost-Aware Decisions"

Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...

How to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...

#MachineLearning #Academia

The ideal candidate is excited about advancing intrusion detection systems through AI, tackling key challenges like adversarial robustness, explainability, and cost-aware decision-making at the intersection of security and machine learning.

[1/n] Competitive opportunity for a 4-year PhD scholarship at UCL Computer Science

Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 @ 1pm

We're seeking exceptional PhD applicants with expertise in AI and cybersecurity to work with myself and @lcavallaro.bsky.social.

#PhD #Cybersecurity #AI #UCL @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk

"AI predicts rain. We predict trouble!" The BIFOLD paper was recognized with a Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

#MLSky #cybersecurity #Meteorology #ClimateScience #AIForScience #AIWeather #SecureAI

(Self-)Nomination for the USENIX Security '26 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) For the seventh year, USENIX Security allows the evaluation of artifacts that support a paper: software, hardware, evaluation data and documentation, raw measurement data, raw survey results, mechaniz...

Last chance to (self-) nominate for USENIX Security'26 Artifact Evaluation Committee!
You should expect a low load of ~1 artifact for functionality/reproducibility assessments per cycle (max 3 for the whole year).

Please support Open Science and fill the form by Oct 17: forms.gle/WoYRX4govNY1... 🚀

GitHub - mlsec-group/adversarial-observations: This repository belongs to the publication: Adversarial Observations in Weather Forecasting This repository belongs to the publication: Adversarial Observations in Weather Forecasting - mlsec-group/adversarial-observations

Combining data from different sources and relying on AI creates a new attack surface. We need to fix this before AI forecasts become the norm.

🧳 Code: github.com/mlsec-group/...
👉 Paper: mlsec.org/docs/2025-cc...
🤗 Distinguished Paper Award at CCS

with Erik Imgrund & @eisenhofer.bsky.social

4/4

For our first session today, Fabio Pierazzi talked about trends and challenges in AI for systems security. What an exciting start to Day 2 of GSW'25!

#GSW25 #AI #SystemSecurity

Join the Graz Security Week from Sep 1 to 5! with @sahar-abdelnabi.bsky.social, Jo Van Bulck, Maria Eichlseder, Georg Fuchsbauer, @sublevado.bsky.social, @fbpierazzi.bsky.social, Kaveh Razavi, Christian Rossow, Yang Zhang securityweek.at (system security, side channels, AI security, & cryptography)

Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!

Second UELA PhD application round open, to students eligible for UK Home fees. Deadline: June 2nd at 1pm

Second application round open with deadline June 15th.

The #ACSAC2025 CFP is out! Send us your great work!

video-muttenthaler Lukas Muttenthaler (Google DeepMind, TU Berlin)

Here’s an extended version of my PhD defense talk about our work on *representational alignment between humans 🧠 and machines 🤖 for computer vision* that I gave two weeks ago at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...

A few days left to apply for this PhD opportunity (due April 15) @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk Read details below

Photo of Martina Lindorfer with a T-Shirt that says "This is what a Professor looks like"

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In #Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien!
#IchForscheGernInWien
📸 Luiza Puiu

I have an open PhD position at @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April). www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...