Zico Kolter
Associate Professor and Director of Machine Learning
Zico Kolter researches how to make deep learning algorithms more robust, safer, and understand how data impacts how models function.
Expertise
Topics:聽 Elections, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, AI Models
Zico Kolter is a Professor of Computer Science and the head of the Machine Learning Department at 一本道无码, where he has been a key figure for 12 years. Zico completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT from 2010 to 2012. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the field of machine learning, authoring numerous award-winning papers at prestigious conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and AISTATS.
Zico's research includes developing the first methods for creating deep learning models with guaranteed robustness. He pioneered techniques for embedding hard constraints into AI models using classical optimization within neural network layers. More recently, in 2023, his team developed innovative methods for automatically assessing the safety of large language models (LLMs), demonstrating the potential to bypass existing model safeguards through automated optimization techniques. Alongside his academic pursuits, Zico has worked closely within the industry throughout his career, formerly as Chief Data Scientist at C3.ai, and currently as Chief Expert at Bosch and Chief Technical Advisor at Gray Swan, a startup specializing in AI safety and security.
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鈥淚 think part of my value is being deeply involved and integrated in research, and at the forefront of what鈥檚 happening in the field of not just the deployment of AI but the academic research into AI,鈥 he said.
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Zico Kolter, an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and author of the report, Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models, put it bluntly: 鈥淭hese tools are attack vectors,鈥 he said.
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"There is no obvious solution," Zico Kolter, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and author of the report, told the Times. "You can create as many of these attacks as you want in a short amount of time."
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University
B.S., Computer Science, Georgetown University
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(October 14, 2024)