Exposing Privacy Risks in Generative AI
How Your Behavior and Perceptions Impact Privacy and Cybersecurity
About the Event:
Join Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Science’s cybersecurity experts to discuss privacy concerns related to generative AI. Faculty members, including Laura Edelson, Tianshi Li, and PhD student Johanna Gunawan, will discuss the latest issues and their work in this area. This free talk will be held at the Northeastern University campus in Arlington, Virginia.
Exposing Privacy Risks in Generative AI
Location: Northeastern University Arlington Campus
Time: April 3, 2024, 6:00 p.m. EDT
- Discover AI’s impact on our daily lives, and see how human behavior affects the way generative AI works.
- Network with faculty members and students who have direct experience in cybersecurity research.
- Meet renowned guest speakers, and learn about the different areas of expertise within the field of cybersecurity.
- Learn about the launch of our Align Master of Science in Cybersecurity program for people from nontechnical backgrounds in both Arlington, Virginia and Boston, Massachusetts.
Featuring Faculty Experts
Laura Edelson
Assistant Professor
Laura is motivated by the global challenge posed by misinformation. She aims to make social media platforms safer and more beneficial for users.
She has conducted large-scale analyses of online paid political content on multiple platforms such as Facebook, Google, and X, and developed methods to help detect inauthentic content.
Tianshi Li
Visiting Assistant Professor
Tianshi’s research interests include usable privacy, security in mobile apps, and novel privacy issues in human–large language model (LLM) interactions.
She has previously worked at Google, where she helped create a series of integrated development environment plugins to help developers build mobile apps with native privacy support.
Johanna Gunawan
PhD Candidate
Johanna’s research interests meet at the intersection of privacy, policy, consumer advocacy, and human–computer interaction, she has most recently focused her work on dark patterns and manipulative interfaces, and the legal implications of their use.
She is a prior Align master’s student with work experience at Rapid7 and Akamai Technologies.
No specialized knowledge or experience in computer science is required.
Questions? Please email c.smith@northeastern.edu.
About Northeastern
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