JoLEA
The twenty-seventh lecture takes place on the 3rd of June 2026 at 4:30 PM (CEST), virtually.
The zoom link to attend the lecture is: https://cwi-nl-zoom.zoom.us/j/86837685647?pwd=u5feR7lO8x8u8bjwwKcJlcDmwATryD.1&jst=2 The lecture will be held by Dr. Una-May O’Reilly, MIT CSAIL, USA.
Adversarial Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems
Adversarial intelligence encompasses the knowledge, skills, expertise, strategic and tactical behavior that support competition between rivals. My goal is Artificial Adversarial Intelligence and I model adversarially intelligent systems. Intelligent adversaries are able to learn by observing how their strategies work and this allows them to improve their strategies. This, in turn, develops an arms race. I will introduce how I can automate the programming of adversarial cyber agents and replicate arms races with genetic programming and coevolutionary algorithms.
About the speaker
Dr. Una-May O’Reilly is a Senior Research Scientist and the leader of ALFA Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. An AI and Machine Learning researcher for 20+ years, she is broadly interested in Adversarial Intelligence, which refers to the intelligence that develops and is leveraged when learning and adapting within offense-vs-defense environments. Her focus extends to Artificial Adversarial Intelligence, the computational counterpart of this phenomenon. Her fascination with security challenges has led her to explore settings facing cyber threats. She develops deep learning and evolutionary algorithms to model cybersecurity phenomena such as malware detection, cyber hunting, and the dynamic interplay of cyber network attacks and defenses.
