Day 1: Secure AI for Health Defense, and Beyond

Our Mission: Acknowledging the urgency and significance of this collaborative journey, we embark on a mission to redefine the future of emerging healthcare, where the triad of AI, Security, and Trust propels us toward unprecedented possibilities. 

The Secure AI for Health workshop at UCSD aims to bring together the most brilliant minds in AI, Security, and Healthcare to connect, collaborate, and drive future research in secure AI solutions in the following areas:

Confidential Computing in 21st Century Healthcare:

Confidential Computing emerges as a beacon, promising a secure haven for health data in the 21st Century. Leveraging technologies like Intel SGX and AMD SEV, healthcare organizations can usher in an era where AI algorithms operate on encrypted data, shielding patient privacy amidst the complexities of the digital age.

Trusted Computing for Transparent AI in the 21st Century:

In the dynamic landscape of the 21st Century, trusted Computing has become the linchpin for transparent AI. By validating the integrity of AI models and their components, healthcare providers can instill trust in AI-driven insights, ensuring the reliability of technology in the years to come.

Secure Multiparty Computation for 21st Century Collaborative Health Research:

The 21st Century calls for collaborative healthcare research that transcends institutional boundaries. SMPC emerges as the sentinel, enabling entities to jointly analyze health data without compromising individual patient privacy, heralding a new era of secure and collaborative health research.

Fully Homomorphic Computation in 21st Century Healthcare: 

In the evolving healthcare landscape, Fully Homomorphic Computation emerges as a transformative force, enabling computations on encrypted data without compromising privacy. This technology opens new avenues for secure and privacy-preserving AI applications in healthcare.

Featured Speakers

Location: HDSI Multipurpose Room, UC San Diego
Date: Feb 19th, 2025 Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration and Networking Breakfast

•    Welcome attendees and provide an opportunity for networking.

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Welcome Remarks

Co-Chair(s): Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar, Siavouche Nemat-Nasser Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Founding Co-Director center for Machine Intelligence, Computing, and Security (MICS)

Prof. Shamim Nemati,  Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Predictive Health Analytics, UC San Diego Health

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM: Keynote Talk: Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Professor of Cybersecurity, TU Darmstadt

Title: "AI-Doctors Without Borders:  Building Trustworthy Collaborative Healthcare"

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Vision Talk: Prof. Atul Malhotra, Vice Chair of Research, UCSD Health

Title: "AI in UCSD Health"

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Sponsors Talks: Dean Pisano, MICS Co-directors Farinaz Koushanfar & Tara Javidi, NSF TILOS Director Yusu Wang

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Vision Talk: Prof. Ari Juels, Professor at Cornell Tech & Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Networking Break

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Vision Talk: Dr. Tarun Soni, Chief Scientist of Networking and Systems, Northrup Grumman

Title: "Responsible AI - across many domains"

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Vision Talk: Dr. Shehzeen Hussain, NVIDIA AI

Title: "AI Safety in the Age of Adversaries: Tackling Challenges in Robust Recognition, Generation and Safe Alignment"

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Vision Talk: Dr. Fatih Porikli, Director of AI Research, Qualcomm

Title: "Generative AI on the Edge"

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Vision Talk: Dr. Angela Dalton, Director of Research, AMD 

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Panel Discussion 1
Topic: "LLM Safety Facets"
Moderator: Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt)
Panelists: Dr. Amy Sitapati (UCSD), Dr. AmirAli Kia (Element Biosciences), Dr. Tara Javidi (UCSD), Prof. Robert Weinreb (UCSD), Dr. Ashish Kundu (Cisco)

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM:  Keynote Talk: Dr. Cody Thornton, PM at Biotechnology Office (BTO), DARPA

Title: "AIxBio to Strengthen National Security"

1:50 PM - 2:05 PM: Vision Talk: Dr. Ashish Kundu, Head of Cybersecurity Research, Cisco

Title: "Secure AI for Health: Quantum and AI Threats"

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM: Vision Talk: Dr. Michael Blum, CEO of Beekeeper AI

Title: "Confidential Computing to Accelerate Healthcare AIe"

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM: Vision Talk: Dr. Kristin Lauter, Head of Westcoast AI Research, Meta

Title: AI safety and reliability research at FAIR

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM: Vision Talk: Dr. Emiliano De Cristofaro, Professor at UC Riverside

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM: Break

3:10 PM - 3:25 PM: Vision Talk: Prof. Houman Homayoun, Professor at UC Davis & CEO at Healthetile

3:25 PM - 3:40 PM: Vision Talk: Dr. Mojan Javaheripi, Senior AI Researcher at Microsoft Research

3:40 PM - 3:55 PM: Vision Talk: Prof. Gene Tsudik, Chancellor Professor, UC Irvine

3:55 PM - 4:55 PM: Panel Discussion 2
Topic: "Medical device /IoT security and privacy"
Moderator: Prof. Gene Tsudik
Panelists: Prof. Houman Homayoun (UC Davis & Healthetile), Prof. Duygu Kuzum (UCSD), Dr. Tarun Soni (Northrup Grumman), Prof. Farshad Raissi (UCSD)

4:55 PM - 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Networking Break

Organizing Committee: 

Prof. Tara Javidi, UCSD Professor and MICS Founding Co-Director

Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar UCSD Professor and MICS Founding Co-Director

Prof. Atul Malhotra, Director of Research, UCSD Health 

Prof. Shamim Nemati,  Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSD Health

Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Chair of System Security, TU Darmstadt and MICS affiliate faculty 

Prof. Farshad Raissi, Faculty of EP Cardiology, UCSD Health

Prof. Chris Longhurst, Chief Medical Officer (CMO)/Chief Digital Officer (CDO), UCSD Health

Nojan Sheybani, UCSD PhD Candidate

Co-sponsored by UCSD MICS Research Center NSF TILOS AI Institute at UCSD