UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Wenke Lee, regents’ professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing, will present “Privacy and Reliability Issues of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems” at noon on Nov. 18 in E202 Westgate Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
Lee is the first presenter for the College of Information Sciences and Technology’s (IST’s) revived Distinguished Lecture Series, which connects researchers, experts and thought leaders with the Penn State community to share perspectives and insights on a variety of topics at the frontier of information sciences and technology.
Lee — whose research interests include systems and network security, malware analysis, applied cryptography and machine learning — will discuss the privacy issues in biometric-based authentication and surveillance, deepfakes and the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models. Lee holds a doctorate in computer science from Columbia University and is an Association for Computing Machinery fellow and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow.
IST’s Distinguished Lecture Series was reinstated by Andrea Tapia, dean of the College of IST following more than two years of inactivity. Syed Billah, Kelley Cotter, Taegyu Kim and Lu Lin, assistant professors in IST, comprise the committee in charge of inviting the guest speakers. Wenke Lee was invited by Kim.
The series aims to enrich the educational experiences of attendees, inspire thought-provoking conversations and collaborations and showcase a diverse array of people, backgrounds and ideas in the information sciences and related fields.
“Community is one of academia’s greatest strengths, fostering intellectual curiosity, boldness and creativity among faculty and peers,” Tapia said. “COVID-19 paused that in-person knowledge sharing, and we’re slowly trying to regain the intellectual intimacy that inspires research and teaching. Our hope with these lectures is to bring people together around issues of common interest, reigniting the shared pursuit of ideas and excitement in the information technology field and beyond.”
The lecture is free and open to the Penn State community.