Sanjay Kariyappa
Sanjay Kariyappa

Sr. Research Scientist

About Me

I am a Sr. Research Scientist at NVIDIA. My research is focused on Trustworthy AI, with a particular emphasis on security and privacy.

I obtained my PhD from Georgia Tech in 2022, where I was advised by Prof. Moinuddin K. Qureshi. In addition to my work on Trustworthy AI, I have published in the areas of computer architecture, hardware security and AI accelerators.

I previously worked at JP Morgan’s Explainable AI CoE. I’ve also been fortunate to intern at several industrial research labs including FAIR and IBM Research during my PhD.

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Interests
  • AI Security & Privacy
  • Trustworthy AI
Education
  • PhD

    Georgia Tech

  • MS

    Georgia Tech

  • BE

    Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

News
Recent Publications
(2024). Information flow control in machine learning through modular model architecture. 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24).
(2024). Progressive Inference: Explaining Decoder-Only Sequence Classification Models Using Intermediate Predictions. International Conference on Machine Learning.
(2024). SHAP@ k: Efficient and Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Identification of Top-k Features. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(2023). Bounding the invertibility of privacy-preserving instance encoding using fisher information. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
(2023). Cocktail party attack: Breaking aggregation-based privacy in federated learning using independent component analysis. International Conference on Machine Learning.

Experience

  1. Sr. Research Scientist

    NVIDIA
    AI Privacy and Security
  2. Sr. AI Research Associate

    JP Morgan Chase, XAI CoE
    Explainable AI
  3. AI Research Intern

    Meta, FAIR
    Federated Learning
  4. AI Research Intern

    Meta AI
    Uncertainty quantification, Conformal prediction
  5. AI Research Intern

    Meta AI
    Semi-supervised learning to improve conversion prediction
  6. AI Research Intern

    IBM Research
    Noise resilient deep learning models for analog AI accelerators

Education

  1. PhD

    Georgia Tech

    GPA: 4.0/4.0

    Thesis: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning. Supervised by Prof. Moinuddin Qureshi.

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  2. MS

    Georgia Tech
    GPA: 4.0/4.0
  3. BE

    Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
    GPA: 3.78/4.0