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Speaking Engagements

Highlights

Perspectives from the MediFor and SemaFor Programs

Content Authenticity Initiative Symposium

December 7, 2023.

Engagements

  1. ​​​​"AI Research to Enhance US Military Programs: A Conversation with DARPA", 16th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit, September 12, 2025. Panel moderator.

  2. "Turning America's Greatest Strength Into Our Greatest Defense: Innovation at the Forefront of National Security." NightDragon - Leidos Roundtable, September 10, 2025. Invited panelist.

  3. "Cybersecurity Priorities: DARPA", Billington CyberSecurity Summit, September 10, 2025. Invited discussion.

  4. "The Challenge with Designing Challenging Challenges", DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, DEFCON, August 10, 2025. Moderator.

  5. "Using Formal Methods: Government Transition Success Stories", DARPA Resilient Software Systems Colloquium, June 17, 2025. Panel moderator.

  6. "Cybersecurity: Building Resiliency, Reducing Redundancy", Fed Gov Today, May 13, 2025. Invited panelist.

  7. "AI for National Security and National Competitiveness", AI Scoop's AI Talks. April 24, 2025. Invited talk.

  8. "Artificial Intelligence, Should you trust it?", 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, April 11, 2025. Keynote.

  9. "AI, The Five Eyes, & Asymmetric Threats", Station DC, March 19, 2025. Invited panelist.

  10. "AIxCC, Semantic Forensics, Formal Methods, Scalability, and Adaptability", DoD Cybersecurity & SAP IT Summit, February 12, 2025. Invited talk.

  11. "The Race to AGI: What Superintelligence Means for American Security", How We Win, January 8, 2025. Invited panelist.

  12. "Enhancing National Security with AI-driven Cybersecurity", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, December 4, 2024. Invited talk.​

  13. "Enhancing National Security with AI-driven Cybersecurity", Cornell University, November 1, 2024. Invited talk.​

  14. “The Future of Cyber Threats and Global Defense”, Intrigue Media, October 24, 2024. Invited talk.

  15. “Enhancing National Security with AI-driven Cybersecurity. Our software systems are vulnerable, image a world where they’re not.” Defence Transformation 2024 Conference, September 26, 2024. Invited talk.

  16. AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Collaborator Panel, DEFCON 32, August 9, 2024. Panel moderator.

  17. “The Security Risks of Generative AI: From Identification and Mitigation to Responsible Use.” Computing Research Association (CRA) Conference at Snowbird, July 25, 2024. Invited panelist.

  18. “Growth with Impact: Mission-focused Research, Evolving Sponsor Models, and Innovative Funding Approaches in Academia” Computing Research Association (CRA) Conference at Snowbird, July 24, 2024. Invited panelist.

  19. “The promise and pitfalls of AI”, Johns Hopkins University Forum on Engineering AI Systems, June 6, 2024. Keynote.

  20. "Driving Decisions with Data-rich Government Services", Government Innovation, Strategy and Technology Conference (GIST24), April 2024. Invited panelist.

  21. "Real or Not, Defending Authenticity in a Digital World (video)", SXSW Panel at Department of Defense House, March 2024. Invited panelist.

  22. “The Future of AI: DARPA, IARPA & DIU”, CDAO's Advantage DoD 2024 Conference, February 22, 2024. Invited panelist.

  23. “The promise and pitfalls of AI,” FAA New and Emerging Aviation Technologies (NEAT) series, January 16, 2024. Invited talk.

  24. “Perspectives from the MediFor and SemaFor Programs,Content Authenticity Initiative Symposium, December 7, 2023. Invited talk.

  25. “Towards AI Measurement Science”, AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium on AI Test and Evaluation, October 26, 2023. Invited talk.

  26. “GenAI Perspectives from the MediFor and SemaFor Programs”, Google GenAI Risks Workshop, October 16, 2023. Invited talk.

  27. “The promise and pitfalls of AI,” Learning from Light Optica Incubator, September 15, 2023. Invited talk.

  28. “DARPA’s Role in DoD Innovation to Enhance Strategic Advantage”, Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Defense, September 14, 2023. Invited talk.

  29. “Ensuring an Enduring Technological and Information Advantage in the United States,” Disruptive Technology for Defense Transformation USA, August 31, 2023. Invited talk.

  30. “Managing Technological Surprise,” The 4th Estate DACM Office (4th Estate DACM) Leaders Building Leaders, May 16, 2023. Invited talk.

  31. “The promise and pitfalls of AI,” SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, Automatic Target Recognition XXXIII, May 1, 2023. Keynote.

  32. “AI Challenges and Opportunities for National Security”, Weston High School AI Colloquium, April 5, 2023. Invited talk.

  33. “Artificial Intelligence should we trust it?” IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, October 11, 2022. Keynote.

  34. “Virtue Throughout the Artificial Intelligence Lifecycle”, SIGKDDD Workshop on Ethical AI, August 15, 2022. Keynote.

  35. “Artificial Intelligence: Current & Future Challenges”, Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Testing, Evaluating, and Assessing Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Systems under Operational Conditions for the Department of the Air Force, June 28, 2022. Invited talk.

  36. “Media Authentication and Explainable AI: Applications Beyond the Visible Spectrum” Perception Beyond the Visual Spectrum, CVPR 2022 workshop, June 19, 2022. Keynote.

  37. “Detection, Attribution, and Characterization of Falsified Media”. University of New Haven, Inaugural Symposium on eCrime, February 15, 2022. Invited talk.

  38. “Detection, Attribution, and Characterization of Falsified Media”. Council on Strategic Risks, Emerging Tech and Nuclear Decision-making, December 2, 2021. Invited talk.

  39. “Explainable AI and Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception” FDA, NIST workshop, August 4, 2021. Invited talk.

  40. “Explainable AI”, SPIE DCS Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications. April 12-16, 2021. Invited talk.

  41. “Automated Approaches to Detecting, Attributing, and Characterizing Falsified Media.” Ten Years Hence, Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame, March 19, 2021. Invited talk.

  42. Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Adapting to Shorter Time Cycles. October 1, 2020. Invited talk.

  43. “Explainable AI and Evaluating Difficult Decision-making”, National Academies of Science Board on Human System Integration, Human-AI Teaming, July 28, 2019. Invited talk.

  44. “Media Forensics” Cyber Maryland 2019, December 5, 2019. Invited talk.

  45. FixFake Symposium. Deep Trust Alliance, November 8.th, 2019. Invited panelist.

  46. “Building more Explainable, Trustworthy, and Robust AI.” GE Healthcare Data Science Symposium, September 23, 2019. Invited talk.

  47. “Structured knowledge for biased & scarce data.” 2nd Workshop on Vision with Biased or Scarce Data, CVPR 2019 workshop, June 16, 2019. Invited talk.

  48. “Media Forensics: Challenges beyond the current state of the art.” Media Forensics CVPR workshop, June 17, 2019. Keynote.

  49. Media Forensics”, DARPA AI Colloquium, March 7, 2019. Invited talk.

  50. “Media Forensics”, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Gonverment-University-Industry Research Roundtable, February 20, 2019. Invited talk. 

  51. Deepfake Workshop, WITNESS, February 10, 2019. Invited panelist.

  52. Forensics Panel, Adobe, February 6, 2019. Invited panelist.

  53. “Media Forensics” National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine work on Robust Machine Learning Algorithms and Systems:  Detection & Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks and Anomalies, December 11, 2018. Invited talk.

  54. AI-enabled forgeries and deepfakes. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 16, 2018. Invited panelist.

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