Nils Lukas
Assistant Professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolNils Lukas is an Assistant Professor at MBZUAI and a security-focused machine learning researcher with a decade of experience probing privacy, integrity, and misuse risks in deployed deep neural networks. His work spans privacy attacks on fine-tuned LLMs, defenses against data poisoning, and practical controls for model misuse, complemented by contributions to secure multi-party computation protocols for private retrieval and secure inference. A University of Waterloo PhD who earned top doctoral honors and an RWTH Aachen M.Sc., he combines rigorous theory with applied internships at Microsoft and Borealis AI. Nils’s background in interdisciplinary projects—from privacy-preserving medical data systems to renewable energy lab software—reveals an unusual blend of systems engineering and adversarial ML expertise that informs his pragmatic approach to AI safety.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Korea UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 1.3, Master's degree, Computer Science, 1.3 at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Yonsei UniversityDoktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
German, English, French
Github Skills (37)
seal9
palisade9
java8
homomorphic-encryption7
graph7
android7
cython6
docker-container6
image-generator6
python6
mpc5
generator5
image-classification5
computation5
circuit5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nilslukas/nilslukas.github.io
Mar 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
NilsHendrikLukas/Keras-GAN
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Keras implementations of Generative Adversarial Networks.
Contributions:174 pushes in 1 month
generative-adversarial-networkkeras
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