The Trojan Horses Haunting Your AI Models

William is a Senior Software Engineer at Protect AI, where he is building systems to help ML engineers and data scientists introduce security into their MLOps workflows effortlessly. Previously, he led a team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) working on application observability and distributed tracing. During that time he contributed to the industry-wide OpenTelemetry standard and helped lead the effort to release an AWS-supported distribution of it. He is passionate about making the observability and security of AI-enabled applications as seamless as possible.

Sam Washko is a senior software engineer passionate about the intersection of security and software development. She works for Protect AI developing tools for making machine learning systems more secure and is the lead engineer on ModelScan, an open source tool for scanning ML model files for attacks. She holds a BS in Computer Science from Duke University, and prior to joining Protect AI, she was part of the Azure SQL Security Feature Team and Blue Team at Microsoft, designing cryptography and telemetry systems. She has a passion for connecting theory and problem solving with engineering to produce solutions that make computing more secure for everyone.