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<i class="">Department of Computer Science Seminar</i>
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<div class=""><b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Bo Li</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
<b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
<b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</b><b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="">
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<b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Wednesday, January 18th</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
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<b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In Person: John Crerar Library 390</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
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<b style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Title: </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Certifiably
Robust Learning via Knowledge-Enabled Logical Reasoning</b></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">As intelligent systems become pervasive, safeguarding their trustworthiness is critical. Standard machine
learning (ML) approaches often assume that the training and test data follow similar distributions, without taking into account the possibility of adversaries manipulating either distribution or natural distribution shifts. This can lead to severe trustworthiness
issues in ML. For instance, our past work has shown that motivated adversaries can circumvent anomaly detection or other machine learning models at test-time through evasion attacks, or inject well-crafted malicious instances into training data to induce errors
through poisoning attacks. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of my research on trustworthy machine learning, including robustness, privacy, generalization, and their underlying interconnections, with a focus on robustness. In particular, I will
first discuss the current state of the art in certifiably robust defenses based on purely data-driven learning approaches and their limitations. I will then present our </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">certifiably
robust learning via knowledge-enabled logical reasoning</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); letter-spacing: 0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> approach, including a thorough analysis of its properties.
I will demonstrate that it is possible to 1) certify the robustness of this end-to-end approach, which significantly improves the SOTA certified robustness, 2) prove this approach is more robust than a single ML model under mild conditions, 3) make it scalable
for a variety of downstream tasks, and this approach is agnostic to the tasks, data, and attacks being used. </span>
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<b class="">Bio:</b></p>
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<a href="http://boli.cs.illinois.edu" class="">Dr. Bo Li</a> is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is the recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship, AI’s 10 to Watch, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Intel Rising Star award, Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, Rising Star Award, Research
Awards from Tech companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Intel, IBM, and eBay, and best paper awards at several top machine learning and security conferences. Her research focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of trustworthy machine learning, which
is at the intersection of machine learning, security, privacy, and game theory. She has designed several scalable frameworks for trustworthy machine learning and privacy-preserving data publishing systems.Her work has been featured by major publications and
media outlets such as Nature, Wired, Fortune, and New York Times.</p>
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Executive Assistant to Michael J. Franklin, Chairman<br class="">
Department of Computer Science<br class="">
The University of Chicago<br class="">
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