October 01, 2025  
  
          Save the Date
The Cybersecurity Institute will hold its third annual hackathon on October 24, 2025.
The Cybersecurity Institute will hold a hackathon in LGRC A112. The event will bring together CICS graduate students, faculty, and cybersecurity... more      
  
      
    
    
          August 06, 2025  
  
          RescueBox is an open-source, free tool available to all. It is designed to give investigators access to free, machine learning tools that are useful in investigations of child exploitation.  We would greatly appreciate your feedback! 
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          April 15, 2025  
  
          Assistant Professors Donghyun Kim and Eugene Bagdasarian started an initiative for Western Mass high school students in STEM. Pioneer Leaders in AI and Robotics (PLAIR) is an outreach program initiated by faculties from the Manning College of... more      
  
      
    
    
          April 15, 2025  
  
          Euguene Bagdasarian and Shlomo Zilberstein received a new 500k grant from Schmidt Sciences:   
   
  
      
    
    
          March 30, 2025  
  
          Eugene Bagdasarian gave an invited talk at the Apple Privacy-Preserving AI workshop.  
   
  
      
    
    
          March 19, 2025  
  
          In this seminar, we will invite leading experts to discuss cutting-edge research in advancing the safety and trustworthiness of GenAI. This is a 1-credit class where students are expected to attend talks in person, participate in discussions, and... more      
  
      
    
    
          March 10, 2025  
  
          UMass Cybersecurity Club is one of the top 12 universities to reach the Global Finals of the Collegiate Pentesting Competition in Rochester, NY.
The competition consisted of the Bugcrowd sponsored team and many other teams finding vulnerabilities... more      
  
      
    
    
          March 04, 2025  
  
          Eugene Bagdasarian gave a keynote at the 3rd Workshop of Deployable AI (DAI 2025) held at the AAAI 2025 conference on March 3rd/4th, 2025, focusing on the deployability aspects of large language models (LLMs).
 
   
   
  
      
    
    
          March 03, 2025  
  
           Eugene Bagdasarian gave a keynote at privacy preserving workshop at Privacy Preserving Articial Intelligence   
   
  
      
    
    
          February 28, 2025  
  
          Amir Houmansadr gave a keynote at the Innovation in Metadata Privacy: Analysis and Construction Techniques (IMPACT) 2025 Program workshop.  He spoke about Fighting Internet Censorship: Challenges and Opportunities.