Ismat Jarin

My name is Ismat Jarin. I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. I obtained my MS degree in CS from UC Irvine and CIS from University of Michigan.  I have been working as a PhD student at UCI, under ProperAI ( Engineering+ Society Institute for AI), ProperData and Networking Group from fall 2022 with Professor Athina Markopoulou. Previously, I was a Graduate Research Assistant at Data Driven Security and Privacy Lab with Professor Birhanu Eshete. I have interned at CPPA at Audit Division (Research Technologists Intern), IBM SVL Watsonx at AI and Automation group (AI/ML Intern working on Agentic AI) and University of Southern California, AI Lab (Visiting Research Scholar working on Adversarial ML and DL Security with Professor Wael).

My research focus is Privacy, Safety and Trustworthiness in Emerging AI Systems, with particular emphasis on improving privacy and trust in Agentic AI system, LLMs/ML and XR by Privacy Risk analysis and designing Trustworthy, Policy centered Machine Learning systems. I have published and presented my research at leading privacy and AI venues, including PETS, WiML at NeurIPS, ConPro at IEEE S&P, USEC at NDSS, and ACM CODASPY. My research has been supported by NSF SaTC Frontier Project Funding, ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship and UCI ICS Steckler Family Endowed Fellowship. 

Beyond research, I am committed to mentorship, leadership, and outreach through programs such as UCI Next Generation Pathways, WiCyS Mentorship, Code to PhD, UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). In my personal life, I like to read novels, writing poems, cook and travel. I also have deep passion for self defense! 

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