The Research ABC’s of Cyber Security: Agents, Bridges to Cyber Knowledge and Coevaluation
Abstract: Dr. Una-May O’Reilly Is the Faculty of Computer Science’s newest honorary degree recipient. At MIT, her research program follows the ABCs. They are examining the productive integration of Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities into cyber Agents, knowledge Bridges to automated security, and the Coevolutionary nature of security threats and counter-measures. This talk will describe progress in developing an autonomous red-team agent supported by an LLM, how LLMs are being exploited to access semi-structured threat and defensive web-knowledge, and their use of LLMs within coevolutionary algorithms.
Bio: At MIT, Dr. O’Reilly heads a group within the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory that applies tenets of biological evolution to machine learning. Their projects include cyber security, clinical medicine knowledge discovery, and educational data mining, among others. She has served as chair of the largest international evolutionary computation conference, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), and in 2013 won the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Achievements in Evolutionary Computation. In a field where women still tend to be underrepresented, Dr. O’Reilly, who has been at MIT since 1996, is described as an “energetic trailblazer” who endeavours to pave the way for future women computer scientists. She is cofounder of the Women in Evolutionary Computation Group for GECCO, a place where students and junior researchers from under-represented cohorts can come together to connect with those established in the field, and she’s appeared on PBS’s SciGirls, a program aimed at inspiring young girls to learn about science and tech. She holds a BSc from the University of Calgary, and a master’s in computer science and a PhD from Carleton University in Ottawa.
Time
Starts:
Ends: