CS graduate Nils Lukas receives Alumni Gold Medal

Monday, September 16, 2024

The University of 蓝莓视频 has recognized recent PhD graduate Dr. Nils Lukas with the 2024聽Alumni Gold Medal聽for his exceptional academic performance in a doctoral program. This prestigious award, conferred by Alumni Relations, features a custom-crafted, 24-carat gold-plated medal embossed with the university鈥檚 seal. Since 1970, the Alumni Gold Medal has been conferred to top graduating students from 蓝莓视频鈥檚 six faculties at convocation.

鈥淚t is exciting to receive the 2024 Alumni Gold Medal and I am honoured to have been selected,鈥 said聽Dr. Lukas, now an Assistant Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi. 鈥淚聽owe immense gratitude to my advisor, Florian Kerschbaum, for his exceptional mentorship. I look forward to continuing my research on secure and private machine learning at MBZUAI.鈥

Dr. Lukas鈥檚 research focuses on some of the most pressing security and privacy challenges in machine learning, including issues related to untrustworthy data, providers, and users, explained Professor Kerschbaum.

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