8th International Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications (SiMLA)

SiMLA2026 in conjunction with ACNS2026 (June 22nd-25th 2026), Stony Brook, New York, USA

Workshop Program Wednesday June 24, 2026 (All times are in Local Time)

Time Program Details
Session 1: Opening & Keynote Session I Session Chairs: Leo Zhang & Yifeng Zhang  |  Join Teams Meeting
09:20 - 09:25 Opening
09:25 - 10:25 Keynote 1: Securing AI, Abusing AI, Trusting AI: Three Views of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning Models and Applications Prof. Bo Luo
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Technical Session I Session Chair: Jianying Zhou
11:00 - 11:15 ACEraser: Environment Forgetting in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning through Influence FunctionJoshua Maccoby and Wendy Hui Wang
11:15 - 11:30 Filtering Adversarial Examples in Binary Function Similarity ModelsAnna Paola Giancaspro, Gianluca Capozzi and Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna
11:30 - 11:45 Street-Legal Physical-World Adversarial Rim for License PlatesNikhil Kalidasu and Sahana Ganapathy
11:45 - 12:00 Can Large Language Models Evade CNN-Based Malware Detection? A Study of Functionality-Preserving Adversarial AssemblyMd Mashrur Arifin, Brodie Abrew, Devyn Hubbs, Ahmed Saif Muntaseer and Jyh-Haw Yeh
12:00 - 12:15 Detection and Explanation of PowerShell Malware with Large Language ModelsMeng Wang, Emma Topolovec, Beatrice Arana, Naga Venkata Prasanna Sai Gupta Chimakurthy Kuladeep, Zhaohan Xi, Guanhua Yan, Xiaokui Shu, Scott Stoller and Ping Yang
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: Keynote & Technical Session II Session Chair: Leo Zhang  |  Join Teams Meeting
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2: Prompt Injection in LLM Agents A/Prof. Neil Gong
15:00 - 15:15 Membership Inference Attacks Against Video Large Language ModelsWei Song, Yuxin Cao, Ziqi Ding, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng and Yuekang Li
15:15 - 15:30 Variational Feature Compression for Model-Specific RepresentationsZinan Guo, Zihan Wang, Chuan Yan, Liuhuo Wan, Ethan Ma and Guangdong Bai
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Session 4: Technical Session III Session Chair: Fuyi Wang  |  Join Teams Meeting
16:00 - 16:15 SENTINEL: Self-Supervised Continual Anomaly Detection for Securing LLM Agent SystemsJake Garnier
16:15 - 16:30 AI Slop and Hallucinations in Vulnerability Assessment: A Survey on Reasoning Failures and Trustworthy MitigationJunchen Ding, Jialiang Dong, Yichen Zhu, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Willy Susilo, Siqi Ma and Yuekang Li
16:30 - 16:45 Privacy-Preserving Fairness Evaluation using Fully Homomorphic EncryptionDivyesh Saglani, Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Rajan M. A., Srividhya Sankepally and Bharat Ratnala

Presentation Format

  • Regular Paper: 12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes Q&A
  • Keynote: 50 minutes presentation + 10 minutes Q&A

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