Outsmarting the hackers : risk-aware defense for safety-critical systems
Abstract
Mohammed Elnawawy was a semi-finalist in the 2025 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Mohammed presented their research, “Outsmarting the Hackers – Risk-Aware Defense.” Their research explores how to protect AI systems without slowing them down by proposing a smarter defense that adapts in real time. Mohammed Elnawawy is completing their PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Security and Verification in Computing
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Publication details
- Journal / source
- cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN