Recent talks

Meta concerns in ML security/privacy (slides, version of May 2025, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited talk, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Student Chapter, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, May 2024.
• Invited keynote, The Second Symposium on Digital Trust, Digital Trust Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February 2025.
• Invited talk, Linköpings universitet, Sweden, November 2024.

Confidence in AI: Can we trust AI-based systems? (slides, version of May 2025, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited talk, Multidisciplinary AI Research Centre, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, May 2025.
• Invited talk, Ericsson, Kista, Sweden, November 2024.
• Invited research talk, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi Selangor, Malaysia, October 2024.
• Invited keynote, Secure and Scalable Machine Learning Symposium, VISTEC, Rayong, Thailand, August 2024.
• Invited lecture, FSKTM, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2024
• Invited talk, Industry Summit, 19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST2022), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 2022. [video]
• Invited talk, International Conference of Governance on Digital Technology, Zhejiang University, Virtual, June 2022.
• Invited talk, Hack Your Tomorrow hackathon, Project Tech Conferences, Virtual, February 2022.
• Waterloo.AI Reverse Co-op, University of Waterloo AI Institute, Virtual, June 2021.
• Invited talk, AI Industry Day, University of Waterloo AI Institute, Virtual, March 2021.
• Techtalk, IEEE Student Branch, University of Jaffna, Virtual, February 2021. [video]
• University of Waterloo, Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, panel discussion on Trustworthy AI -- security, privacy, and ethics, Virtual, October 2020.

Model Stealing Attacks and Defenses: Where Are We Now? (slides, version of May 2025, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited keynote, Rootcode Al Community Meetup - Guest Edition, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2025.
• Invited talk, CS Seminar, City University of Hongkong, Hong Kong, September 2024.
• Invited seminar, Cybersecurity and Privacy (CySeP) Summer School, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2024.
• Invited talk, IBM Research Europe – Zurich, Rüschlikon, June 2024
• Invited talk, Cryptology and Data Security Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Bern, June 2024.
• Invited talk, ZISC Seminar, Zurich Information Security/Privacy Center, ETH, Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2024.
• Invited talk, KTH Security Seminar, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, January 2024.
• Invited talk, Department of Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2023.
• Invited keynote, ACM AsiaCCS 2023, Melbourne, Australia, July 2023.
• Invited talk, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Malaysia, July 2023.
• Guest lecture, IT Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia, July 2023.
• Reed College Computer Science Colloquium, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 2023.

Blinded Memory (slides, version of May 2024, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited talk, Institut d'informatique, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2024.
• Invited talk, KTH Security Seminar (Invited talk), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2024.
• Invited talk, ETH CS Distinguished Colloquium, Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2024.
• 2023 Cheriton Research Symposium, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 2023.
• Invited lecture, CISPA Summer School, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2023.
• CISSE Invited Speaker Seminar, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2023.
• Invited talk, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, May 2023.

Real-world (Cyber)Security with Kaisa Nyberg: A Personal Perspective (slides, version of October 2023, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Nyberg Fest, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, October 2023.

False Claims Against Model Ownership Resolution (slides, version of May 2023, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Rochester Institute of Technology, ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (invited talk), Rochester, NY, USA, May 2023.

Technology Transfer from Security Research Projects: A Personal Perspective (slides, version of December 2022 [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited keynote at ICISS 2022, Virtual (Tirupati, India), Dec 2022.
• Invited talk at NTT Mushahino R&D Center, Tokyo, Japan, January 2017.
• Invited talk at ACE Seminar, University College London, UK, November 2016.
• Invited keynote at NordSec 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 2015.
• Invited lecture at Cybersecurity and Privacy (CySeP) Winter School, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 2014.

Extraction of Complex DNN Models: Real Threat or Boogeyman (slides, version of April 2023, [pdf], [slideshow])

• Invited talk at CEMSE/CS, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, May 2023.
• The 19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST2022) (invited keynote), Virtual, August 2022. [video]
• IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (invited keynote), Virtual, October 2021.
• CASA Distinguished Lecture Series, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Virtual, November 2020.
• Huawei Helsinki Cloud Service Summit, Virtual, November 2020.

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