Assistant Professor (RTDa) / Machine Learning Security

SHORT BIO Ambra Demontis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

She received her M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2014 and 2018. Her research focuses on the security of machine learning algorithms. These algorithms have reported outstanding performances; however, they can be easily fooled by attackers. The research of Dr. Ambra Demontis has contributed to studying their vulnerabilities to different types of attacks and making them more robust. She serves on the program committee of different conferences and journals. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and the Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal. She has been co-chair of the AISec workshops (2019-2022), area chair, and track chair of ICPR, and she is the chair of the IAPR TC 1. She is a member of IEEE, ACM, and IAPR.