Past Talks

Bluedot/AISAP NYC: “Kids don't care, they just try”

I presented this lightning talk at an AI Safety Awareness Project event to foster awareness of randomness in AI agents and the implications of secondary tendencies from LLMs. Using real-life examples (hallucinations and high-risk commands), this talk encouraged cautious and defensive methods for all agentic interactions (vs a risk-taking “YOLO” approach).

ZENITY/AI agent security summit: genetic adversarial coding

This talk raised awareness that self-improving agents can let attackers and defenders fine tune and maximize their objectives at inference time, for instance in secure coding (to introduce vs detect vulnerabilities).

Boston AI security meetup

Since January 2025, I’ve organized Boston meetups at various locations (in partnership with AI Safety Awareness Project, BlueDot, Harvard’s AISST and other local groups). This included situational awareness, technical deep dives, and most importantly lively discussions to exchange perspectives.

AKAMAI ACADEMY: BOTNETS KEYNOTE

In May 2018, I delivered the “botnets” keynote for Akamai’s annual internal conference for Security Services (Americas Region). In this talk, focused on situational awareness for technical teams interacting with customers, my co-presenter and I covered the Mirai botnet and threat actors’ Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for conducting (primarily) Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Mirai is soon turning 10 years old and is still a major active internet threat.