Join us Thursday, April 9 for our final SMCS Pizza Seminar of the semester! Our speaker will be UPEI alum Patricia Kibenge and the topic is the use of machine learning and deep learning for cybersecurity. As always, there will be free pizza and drinks to follow.

Bio:

Patricia (Patti) Kibenge is a 2nd generation Ugandan-Canadian living in Kjipuktuk, in the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people. She is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Dalhousie University in her final year of studies. Her research is in Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) which is an emerging field that combines cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, investigating attacks on machine and deep learning algorithms and defences against such attacks. She can most likely be found working at a café in the North End, supporting her 5 yr old's multiple interests and/or surrounded by music.