Congratulations to my fellow awardees Rose Yu (UCSD) and Lerrel Pinto (NYU)!

I enjoyed learning about the work of Yoshua, Rose, and Lerrel at the Samsung AI Forum earlier this week.

news.samsung.com/global/samsu...

Thank you to Samsung for the AI Researcher of 2025 award! I'm privileged to collaborate with many talented students & postdoctoral fellows @utoronto.ca @vectorinstitute.ai . This would not have been possible without them!

It was a great honour to receive the award from @yoshuabengio.bsky.social !

Excited to share the first batch of research projects funded through the Canadian AI Safety Institute's research program at CIFAR!

The projects will tackle topics ranging from misinformation to safety in AI applications to scientific discovery.

Learn more: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

If you are submitting to @ieeessp.bsky.social
this year, a friendly reminder that there is an abstract submission deadline this Thursday May 29 (AoE).

More details: sp2026.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html

The Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR is now accepting Expressions of Interest for Solution Networks in AI Safety under two themes:

* Mitigating the Safety Risks of Synthetic Content
* AI Safety in the Global South.

cifar.ca/ai/ai-and-so...

I will be giving a talk at the MPI-IS @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social in Tübingen next week (March 12 @ 11am). The talk will cover my group's overall approach to trust in ML, with a focus on our work on unlearning and how to obtain verifiable guarantees of trust.

Details: is.mpg.de/events/speci...

If you work at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning, or more broadly how to trust ML, SaTML is a small-scale conference with highly-relevant work where you'll be able to have high-quality conversations with colleagues working in your area.

I look forward to co-directing the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR with @catherineregis.bsky.social

We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community.

Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...