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Vitaly Shmatikov
Cornell Tech; ML privacy and security
Professor at Cornell Tech; long-running researcher on privacy attacks against ML systems. Co-author of foundational membership inference and model-inversion papers.
current Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
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Security mindsetendorses
Treat safety as adversarial security; assume systems break under attackArgues ML systems leak training data in predictable ways; the field treats privacy as an afterthought when it should be foundational.
We can extract verbatim training examples from large language models with no special access. Privacy in ML is not a future problem; it is a present, pervasive failure.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.