Sebastian Szyller

My name is Sebastian Szyller and I'm a tenure track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. I lead new Trustworthy and Adversarial Computing Lab. I'm interested in different ways that we can protect machine learning models and data to enable secure and trustworthy analysis -- both in terms of the technical details as well as legislation compliance.

Prior to returning to Aalto University I was a research scientist at Intel Labs, where I worked on provenance & ownership, privacy and adversarial robustness in generative, multimodal machine learning systems.

I did my MSc and PhD as part of the doctoral track which is a joint MSc and PhD programme at Aalto University. Both my graduate and doctoral studies (including thetheses) were supervised by N. Asokan. My doctoral dissertation received Finnish AI Society Best Dissertation Award, and Aalto University Best Dissertation Award.

I did my BSc in computer science at Lodz University of Technology (and briefly Turku University of Applied Sciences ), and wrote my thesis under the supervision of Laurent Babout. I was also a member (and eventually a vice-president) of the student government at my faculty, a member of the scholarship committee, and I organised language workshops for students. In parallel, I worked as a big data and Scala software engineer at an investment bank.

In my free time, I enjoy film & street photography, custom mechanical keyboards, industrial design, bouldering and fixed-gear cycling. In the previous life, I was a member of a British Parliamentary style debate club Aalto Debating Society.