PhD Milestone

This past Friday, December 5th 2025, I successfully passed the Oral Candidacy Exam, officially becoming a PhD candidate. My dissertation proposal surrounds security in machine learning-based systems covering three major phases: model creation, storage, and usage. I would like to thank everyone who came to support me during my presentation, and my committee (Dr. Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, Dr. Taeho Jung, Dr. Peter Kogge, and Dr. Gail Kaiser) for their guidance and feedback. I am looking forward to continuing on with this work and enhancing security for machine learning-based systems.