COMS 4580X: Foundations of Generative AI for Cybersecurity
(Dual-listed with COMS 5580X).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: COMS 3110 and (COMS 4720, COMS 4740, STAT 3030, STAT 3050, or STAT 3470)
Foundations of generative AI with emphasis on cybersecurity principles, threats, and defenses. Core model families such as VAEs, GANs, diffusion, flows, energy-based models, and LLMs and how they are trained and deployed in adversarial settings. Key topics include representation learning, transformers, prompting and agentic AI, offensive uses (e.g., exploit generation, prompt injection, poisoning, backdoors, exfiltration, privacy leakage), and defensive methods such as interpretability, drift/robustness evaluation, provenance/authentication, and secure hardening.
(Typically Offered: Fall)