THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Preliminary Workshop Program

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

March 11, 2020

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

8:00 - 8:30 Coffee & Pastries

8:30 - 10:15 Session 1

• Qun Li (William and Mary),  Distributed deep learning algorithm to defend against Byzantine attacks.
   
• Waheed Bajwa (Rutgers University), Adversary-resilient distributed and decentralized machine learning.
   
• Lili Su (MIT), Distributed statistical machine learning in adversarial settings: Byzantine gradient descent.
   
• Susmit Jha (SRI International), TRINITY: Trust, Resilience and Interpretability in AI.
   
• DISCUSSION: 25 minutes

10:15 - 10:45 Posters & Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30 Session 2

• Paulo Tabuada (UCLA), One ounce of modeling is worth a pound of training: data-driven control for nonlinear systems.
   
• Miguel Lejeune (George Washington University), Distributionally Robust Area Under Curve (AUC) Maximization
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• Deepesh Data (UCLA), Byzantine-Resilient and Communication-Efficient Stochastic Gradient Descent.
   
• Nirupam Gupta (Georgetown University), Impact of Redundancy on Secure Distributed Optimization and Learning.
   
• DISCUSSION: 25 minutes
   

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch on your own (there are multiple choices for lunch near the workshop venue)

1:45 - 3:30 Session 3

• Lifeng Lai (UC-Davis), Policy poisoning attack on multiarm bandit problems.
   
• Quanyan Zhu (New York University), Game-theoretic approach to security of distributed machine learning.
   
• Jing Liu (UIUC), Robust estimation in sensor networks in the presence of adversarial attacks.
   
• Erik Miehling (UIUC), Switching Games: Theory and Application to Robust Learning Systems.
   
• DISCUSSION: 25 minutes
   

3:30 - 4:30  POSTER SESSION

• Vikash Sehwag (Princeton University)
   
• Nikhil Chopra (University of Maryland, College Park)
   
• Gunjan Verma (Army Research Lab)
   
• Elahe Aghapour (University of Southern California)
   
• Arjun Bhagoji (Princeton University)

• Ajaykrishnan Nageswaran (University of Maryland, College Park)

• Gangshan Jing (North Carolina State University)

• Jemin George (Army Research Laboratory)

• Sanjay Purushotham (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

• Nirupam Gupta (Georgetown University)

• Kaiqing Zhang (UIUC)