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The Way Forward: Towards Trustworthy AI Agents

Speaker: Alina Oprea (Northeastern University)

Alina Oprea is a Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where she co-directs the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDS2) Lab. She joined Northeastern University in Fall 2016 after spending 9 years as a Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories. She is the recipient of the Technology Review TR35 award for research in cloud security in 2011, the Google Security and Privacy Award in 2019, the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2020, and the CMU Cylab Distinguished Alumni Award in 2024. Her research interests are trustworthy AI, security of agentic AI systems, AI for cybersecurity, machine learning privacy, and cloud security. She is currently the General Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026.