Sahar Abdelnabi is an AI security researcher at Microsoft. She completed her PhD at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, advised by Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz, and obtained her MSc degree at Saarland University.
She is interested in the broad intersection of machine learning with security, safety, and sociopolitical aspects. This includes the following areas: 1) Understanding, probing, and mitigating the failure modes of machine learning models, their biases, and their misuse scenarios. 2) How machine learning models could amplify or help counter existing societal and safety problems (e.g., misinformation, biases, stereotypes, cybersecurity risks, etc.). 3) Emergent safety challenges posed by new foundation and large language models.