We welcome you to CDS-KIAC talk on 06th July 2026 (Monday). The details are as below:
Speaker : Prof. Karthik Nandakumar, Associate Professor, Michigan State University (MSU)
Title : Towards Trustworthy Generative AI
Date and Time : July 06, 2026: 11:00 AM
Venue : # 102, CDS Seminar Hall
ABSTRACT:
While generative AI models have revolutionized many domains including computer vision and natural language processing, they have introduced new dangers to society. In this talk, we will first review the trust issues in generative AI and identify key unsolved challenges. Next, we focus on three specific problems in generative computer vision and discuss potential solutions. Firstly, powerful capabilities of these models can be misused to cause privacy harm to individuals. To address this problem, we show how the inherent vulnerabilities of these models can be leveraged to protect against misuse of facial data. Secondly, we need to ensure the content generated by these models is safe and aligned with human values. In this context, we demonstrate how models can robustly unlearn toxic information that has already been imbibed during pre-training. Finally, we now live in a world where we can no longer believe what we see (hear or read), especially in digital form. Distinguishing between natural and synthetically generated or modified image/video content (e.g., deepfakes) is one of the grand cybersecurity challenges of the near future. To solve this problem, we consider both proactive approaches that watermark all content generated by honest actors and reactive techniques like generalizable multimedia forensic detectors that identify content generated/modified by malicious adversaries. We will conclude with an immediate call for action to make generative AI models trustworthy, before they begin to cause irreparable real-world harm
BIOGRAPHY:
Karthik Nandakumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) and an Affiliated Associate Professor in the Computer Vision department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Earlier, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Singapore and a Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore. His primary research interests include trustworthy machine learning, computer vision, biometric recognition, and applied cryptography. He was a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) (2019-23) and a Distinguished Industry Speaker for the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2020-21)
Host Faculty: Prof. Venkatesh Babu, CDS
ALL ARE WELCOME
