Aastha Mehta, a doctoral student in the Distributed Systems group and the Security & Privacy group, has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Congratulations Aastha! Aastha's research interests span systems security, data privacy, operating systems,…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have coauthored 17 papers at the colocated LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020, two of the top conferences in theoretical computer science. LICS is…
The following two MPI-SWS papers have been accepted to ICML 2020, one of the flagship conferences in machine learning: Policy Teaching via Environment Poisoning: Training-time Adversarial Attacks against Reinforcement Learning by Amin Rakhsha, Goran Radanovic, Rati Devidze, Xiaojin Zhu, Adish Singla. Adaptive Reward-Poisoning Attacks against Reinforcement Learning by Xuezhou Zhang, Yuzhe Ma, Adish…
Research by MPI-SWS faculty member Elissa Redmiles and collaborators at Microsoft Research, the University of Zurich, the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University was featured in the New York Times, Scientific American (article 1, article 2), Wired (article 1, article 2), STAT News, and other venues. The articles cover two papers: (1) Redmiles' paper…
MPI-SWS researchers Sergey Bozhko and Björn Brandenburg have received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems (ECRTS 2020) for their paper entitled Abstract Response-Time Analysis: A Formal Foundation for the Busy-Window Principle. Congratulations!
