AI Assisted Cyber Security

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the research challenges and opportunities at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI). It focuses on a range of topics and research in the areas of malware, access control, federated learning, and adversarial attacks. Students will learn and have some hands-on experience on cutting edge research in these topics, particularly in malware analysis, read paper and analyze them. The main objective is to let students read peer-reviewed papers to understand and practice state-of-the-art AI for cybersecurity solutions, work in groups to analysis and critique scholarly articles, and spark new research ideas for their research work.