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Scalable machine learning technology, evolutionary algorithms, and data science frameworks for large-scale knowledge mining, prediction, analytics, and optimization with projects in cyber security, MOOC technology, software analysis, and clinical medicine
Research Themes
| Artificial Adversarial Intelligence | MOOC Data Analytics | Clinical Medicine |
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Applications: Adversarial dynamics modeling, adversarial examples, adversarial hardening, malware detection and classification, automatic program analysis for vulnerabilities, deception, segmentation and peer to peer network defenses against DDOS, lateral stage and scanning attacks; artificial intelligence; MOOCs on computational thinking and programming, MOOC clickstream and activity data analysis with deep learning; Large scale physiological time series, EEG and other vital signals, leveraging deep learning and similarity-based retrieval.
| ALFA's research would not be possible without the past and ongoing support of our industry sponsors |
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ALFA Group is formerly the Evolutionary Design and Optimization Group
Recent News
September
Representation Learning for Code Malware
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Sanja Simonovikj, ALFA UROP
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Artificial Adversarial Intelligence: What Star Wars Teaches Us About Adversarial Dynamics
Una-May O'Reilly
Symposium and Inaugural Speech for Prof. Dr. Peter A.N. Bosman: Back to the Future and Beyond; Traversing the Ever-evolving Landscape of Evolutionary Algorithms
Delft University of Technology, Delft Netherlands
ALFA welcomes new M.Eng and SuperUROP students to the group
August
We welcome Nicolas Lesimple, visiting Master's student, from L’Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EFPL) de Lausanne, Switzerland
July
Dr. Jamal Toutouh is awarded the Fellow of the Month of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Alumni Association -North America Chapter
June
Flipping Sign Bits is All You Need to Craft Black-Box Adversarial Examples
Abdullah Al-Dujaili
ICML Security Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning Systems Workshop, Long Beach CA USA
We welcome Dr. Şebnem Özdemir, Assistant Professor from Istinye University, Istanbul Turkey
May
Spatial Coevolutionary Deep Neural Networks Training
Jamal Toutouh
Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo Uruguay
An Artificial Coevolutionary Framework for Adversarial AI
Jamal Toutouh
Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo Uruguay
An Artificial Coevolutionary Framework for Adversarial AI
Erik Hemberg
MIT - Lincoln Lab, Cambridge MA USA
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence for Cybersecurity
Una-May O'Reilly
IBM, Tokyo Japan
We welcome Dhruv Sumathi and Alexander Shushkov, Interns from Weston High School
April
Spatial Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Network
Erik Hemberg
SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL, Research Update Report, Cambridge MA USA
Erik Hemberg
SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL, Research Update Report, Cambridge MA USA
We welcome a new Postdoctoral Fellow to the group Dr. Behnaz Bostanipour, from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, sponsored by the Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
March
Flipping Sign Bits is All You Need to Craft Black-Box Adversarial Examples
Abdullah Al-Dujaili
IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA
Technology Trends in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Una-May O'Reilly
Canadian Embassy of the USA, Washington DC USA
Adversarial Dynamics; Anticipicating The Next Move
Una-May O'Reilly
AI/ML Cyber Defense Ops, Workshop on Implications of AI and Cybersecurity, R&D and Emerging Areas Panel
NASEM AI and CyberSecurity Workshop, Washington DC USA
We welcome Sagar Biswas, visiting student from Manipal University, Jaipur India in collaboration with Hong Kong University, Hong Kong HK
January
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence
Una-May O’Reilly
AAAI-19, 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu HI USA
Una-May O’Reilly
AAAI-19, 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu HI USA
2018
November
Computer Systems Arms Races
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Una-May O’Reilly Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada Keynote Speaker: The ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing, Halifax Canada |
October
*Outstanding Poster Award: Machine Learning and Malware Arms Race
Abdullah Al-Dujaili, Alex Huang, Erik Hemberg, Una-May O'Reilly
2018 Horizons Colloquium, awarded on behalf of IBM Research
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Medium Article: Inaugural AI Research Week Highlights Collaboration and Future of AI
Abdullah Al-Dujaili, Alex Huang, Erik Hemberg, Una-May O'Reilly
2018 Horizons Colloquium, awarded on behalf of IBM Research
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Medium Article: Inaugural AI Research Week Highlights Collaboration and Future of AI
We welcome Carl Im, CEO, Solomon Strategic Consulting Limited, Seoul South Korea visiting to oberserve ALFA research
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