Security and Privacy of Machine Learning

First Week

· by David Evans

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Since not everyone has joined the slack yet, I’m sending this out by email, but please make sure to join https://secprivml.slack.com soon. I will use that for future communications.

I have grouped the 18 full participants in the class into three teams of six:

Team Bus:

Anant Kharkar
Ashley Gao
Atallah Hezbor
Joshua Holtzman
Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas
Weilin Xu

Team Gibbon:

Aditi Narvekar
Austin Chen
Ethan Lowman
Guy “Jack” Verrier
Jialei Fu
Jin Ding

Team Panda:

Bargav Jayaraman
Christopher Geier
Faysal Hossain Shezan
Nathaniel Grevatt
Nishant Jha
Tanmoy Sen

The teams will probably adjust a bit over the next week as some people who registered for the class didn’t submit a survey, and others may be joining the class late, etc., but otherwise we will plan to keep with these teams through spring break and possible re-arrange things after that. You can, of course, rename your team and develop your own adversarial (but tasteful) team icon.

Each week, one team will be responsible for leading the class, one team for blogging (writing a summary of the class), and one team for food. Everyone in the class is expected to do the preparation for each meeting, which will usually involve reading a few papers (but may involve other activities, at the design of the leading team). See https://secml.github.io/teams/ for the description of team responsibilities. For the first week, Team Bus will be the leading team, Team Gibbon will be the feeding team, and Team Panda will be the blogging team. I have created a slack channel for each team, and you should have an invitation to join it. The immediate tasks for each team are:

  • Team Bus: decide on a leader who will be responsible for coordinating your team for this week, come up with some ideas what you would like to do for Friday’s meeting, make sure there are some people who can come to my office hours on Monday (2:30pm) - if not enough people can come then, arrange an alternative time with me, and plan an exciting and worthwhile seminar for Friday.

  • Team Gibbon: you are the feeding team for this week, so should select 2-3 people to take care of this. One of you should pick up a credit card from me on Thursday to pay for the food. You will be leading the seminar on 2 Feb, so should determine a leader for this, and once Team Bus posts the topic and paper for this week (which should happen on Monday), should start planning your topic. We should meet briefly after Friday’s seminar, to discuss your plans, and then a longer meeting the following Monday.

  • Team Panda: you are the blogging team for this week, so should get familiar with https://secml.github.io/blogging/. You will be leading the seminar or 9 Feb, so should start thinking of topics you would like to lead. You should identify leaders for blogging, feeding, and leading to be ready for the next 3 weeks.

Cheers,

— Dave