Feras Al-kassar
AI Security Researcher at Sonar
Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFeras Al-kassar is an AI security researcher with 10 years' experience at the intersection of LLMs, agents, and static analysis, currently driving threat research at Sonar. He holds a Ph.D. in Security from Sorbonne and a strong publication record (NDSS, Usenix, EuroS&PW) exploring practical weaknesses in web apps and ML systems, and has multiple published CVEs in open source. His work spans prompt injection, RAG poisoning, agentic-system risks, and benchmarking ML guards, informed by prior roles building advanced static scanners and privacy compliance analyses. Comfortable in several programming languages and ML frameworks, he blends deep research rigor with hands-on engineering—e.g., developing transformations to improve static analysis coverage and applying differential privacy to text anonymization. Based in Geneva, he pairs academic depth with practical impact, uniquely bridging formal security testing and emerging LLM threat models.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Master’s Degree, Machine Learning and Data Mining at Université Jean Monnet Saint-EtienneMaster's degree, Advanced Data Analysis, Master's degree, Advanced Data Analysis at Leiden UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Damascus UniversityPhD, Advanced Security Testing of modern Web Applications, PhD, Advanced Security Testing of modern Web Applications at Sorbonne University
Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (200)
monitoring10
laravel10
rrd10
network10
snmp10
network-monitoring10
system-monitoring10
php10
feed9
ctc9
audio9
audio-applications9
dokuwiki9
raspberry9
sequence9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
enferas/Mgh-game
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
enferas/librenms
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplnetwork-monitoring
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