Chaowei Xiao, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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I recentley defended my PhD in the Computer Security and Privacy Lab at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington where I was advised by Yoshi Kohno .
While I am fascinated by a variety of security and privacy problems, I focus on the intersection of security and machine learning. In particular, I seek to understand how and whether adversarial examples pose a real threat to deployed systems. My early researched showed that popular computer vision deep learning models are vulnerable to physical attacks with stickers that do not require digital access to the system. Some of that work has been covered by Ars Technica , IEEE Spectrum , and others. I have also
Furthermore, I take an active interest in the broader implications of this new adversarial capability. As a member of the Tech Policy Lab , I have co-authored a paper on the legal and policy consequences of tricking an automated system without compromising any traditional security mechanisms.
Chaowei Xiao, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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