COURSE

AIAA4313

Frontier Topics in AI Security and Privacy

Information Hub / Artificial Intelligence · 3 Credits

This course introduces trending AI security and privacy problems and provides concrete examples of real-world applications. It dissects the AI/ML pipelines and common ecosystems, and investigates how each component in the pipeline could cause unique security and privacy issues, causing financial and even safety damage to users, model owners, system integrators, etc. Using the framework of security CIA triad and privacy theories, the course will introduce attacks that disrupt or dictate the behavior of AI-based control systems, and those that steal private user and model information. Another emphasis will be on the corresponding protection methodologies and implementations. Course projects will have students build AI systems such as voice assistants from scratch and test various offensive and defensive techniques on them.