AI-SDM - Seminar Series - Ozgur Eris, Christina Liaghati, Ben Wellner

— 4:30pm

Location:
In Person and Virtual - ET - Newell-Simon Hall 4305 and Zoom

Speaker:
OZGUR ERIS, CHRISTINA LIAGHATI, BEN WELLNER, MITRE

►Ozgur Eris is the Managing Director of the AI and Autonomy Innovation Center, where he leads over 300 AI engineers and scientists dedicated to advancing AI for public good. His research focuses on augmenting human cognition with AI to tackle sociotechnical challenges, including course of action planning, clinical decision support, AI assurance, IoT-enabled situation awareness, and collaboration systems. Dr. Eris founded MITRE’s AI Assurance and Discovery Lab, which aims to identify and mitigate critical, yet poorly understood, assurance risks in AI-enabled systems. Before joining MITRE, he was a tenured Associate Professor in the Product Innovation Management department at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Prior to Delft, he was a founding faculty member at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, where he co-created a novel engineering design program. Earlier in his career, he served as the Associate Director of the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. Dr. Eris earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Washington, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on engineering design from Stanford University.

►Christina Liaghati is the Manager of the Trustworthy & Secure AI Department and MITRE ATLAS Lead. Working across a collaborative global community of industry, government, and academia, Dr. Liaghati leads MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI Department and MITRE ATLAS, where she passionately drives research and developments in trustworthy and secure AI for everyone working to leverage AI-enabled systems. Leading her department of 50+ scientist and engineers and serving the community with the not-for-profit, objective, MITRE perspective, she is dedicated to working together to create and openly share actionable tools, capabilities, data, and frameworks for trustworthy and secure AI like ATLAS, an ATT&CK-style framework of the threats and vulnerabilities of AI-enabled systems.

As Dr. Liaghati has worked across the community to improve the common understanding of AI security concerns, her work quickly started overlapping with broader AI assurance concerns, which includes AI equitability, interpretability, reliability, robustness, safety, and needs for privacy enhancement. As a result of this expansion beyond AI security into more of these elements of trustworthy AI and AI assurance, her current focus under ATLAS and across the international community is to build a protected mechanism for increased knowledge and incident sharing across government and industry in both AI security and the broader areas of AI assurance. Dr. Liaghati also chairs the NATO Science and Technology Organization Research Task Group on the AI Assurance and Security, focused on fostering an enduring collaborative community of NATO organizations and industry partners, leveraging the Science and Technology Organization to shape future interoperable capability developments in AI security and assurance.

► Ben Wellner is Chief Scientist for Generative AI within MITRE’s Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center, based on Bedford, MA. He is the principal investigator for LLM-SIREN, an internal research effort focused on developing novel large language model-based capabilities and providing robust methods for assuring them. Dr. Wellner has led numerous efforts at MITRE addressing research challenges in natural language processing, healthcare analytics and aviation safety and has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, in areas of machine learning, human language technology as well as clinical- and bio-informatics. These various research efforts have also led to the development of multiple open-source software artifacts that have seen widespread use within MITRE and beyond in areas of topic modeling and information extraction. He also serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Brandeis University where he teaches graduate level courses in computational linguistics and machine learning. Dr. Wellner holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, an M.Sc. in Advanced Computing from Imperial College – London, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brandeis University.


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