Briland Hitaj
Technical Lead - AI Research Engineer at Confidencial.io
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBriland Hitaj is a Technical Lead and AI research engineer with nine years of focused experience in AI/ML security, privacy, and safety, currently based in New York. He has led and contributed to over ten government-funded projects (DARPA, IARPA, ARPA‑H, DHS), producing top-tier publications and media coverage in outlets like Forbes and MIT Technology Review. His work spans data reconstruction, poisoning, membership inference, model extraction, and AI backdooring, with a distinctive emphasis on generative models and privacy-preserving distributed learning. Briland’s academic roots include a PhD from Sapienza and authorship of early GAN-based security work (e.g., PassGAN), reflecting a blend of deep research and applied R&D. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on team and task lead who translates cutting-edge attacks and defenses into practical tools for both government and commercial cybersecurity challenges.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Sapienza Università di RomaMaster's Degree, Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering at Epoka University
Albanian, English, Turkish, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
security6
data-format5
pythonic4
privacy4
python4
generative-ai4
binary-data4
translate3
generative-adversarial-network3
llm3
h5py2
image-translation2
image-synthesis2
face2
pytorch2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
briland/LLM-security-and-privacy
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
LLM security and privacy
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
awesome-llm-security-and-privacygenerative-aillmllm-frameworkllm-privacy
briland/learning-certificates
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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