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The End of Trust: How Agentic AI Breaks Security Assumptions
Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek, Erman Ayday
For decades, the security of digital interaction has rested on an unacknowledged economic constraint. Attackers faced a tradeoff between the fidelity of a deception and the scale a…
Neighborhood Blending: A Lightweight Inference-Time Defense Against Membership Inference Attacks
Osama Zafar, Shaojie Zhan, Tianxi Ji +1
In recent years, the widespread adoption of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), particularly in sensitive environments, has raised considerable privacy concerns. Of particular i…
Privacy-Preserving AI-Enabled Decentralized Learning and Employment Records System
Yuqiao Xu, Mina Namazi, Sahith Reddy Jalapally +3
Learning and Employment Record (LER) systems are emerging as critical infrastructure for securely compiling and sharing educational and work achievements. Existing blockchain-based…
Digital Agriculture Sandbox for Collaborative Research
Osama Zafar, Rosemarie Santa González, Alfonso Morales +1
Digital agriculture is transforming the way we grow food by utilizing technology to make farming more efficient, sustainable, and productive. This modern approach to agriculture ge…
Empowering Digital Agriculture: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research
Osama Zafar, Rosemarie Santa González, Mina Namazi +2
Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. H…
A User-Centric, Privacy-Preserving, and Verifiable Ecosystem for Personal Data Management and Utilization
Osama Zafar, Mina Namazi, Yuqiao Xu +2
In the current paradigm of digital personalized services, the centralized management of personal data raises significant privacy concerns, security vulnerabilities, and diminished…