Emily Wenger

Recent Happenings

8/1/24 Starting as an Assistant Professor at Duke University!
11/28/23 Honored to be part of the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2024.
5/8/23 Starting as a Research Scientist at Meta AI!
4/20/23 Successfully defended my PhD!!
3/27/23 Excited to serve on the PC for IEEE Security and Privacy 2024.
9/22/22 Thrilled to be selected as a 2023 Siebel Scholar!
9/16/22 Paper on finding naturally occuring backdoor datasets accepted to NeurIPS 2022!
9/14/22 Paper on attacking lattice cryptography with transformers accepted to NeurIPS 2022!
9/1/22 Selected as a member of the EECS Rising Stars 2022 cohort.
8/15/22 Paper on post-breach model recovery accepted to CCS 2022!
6/6/22 Honored to receive a University of Chicago Harper Dissertation fellowship.



Selected Press

7/26/24 Nature: AI produces gibberish when trained on too much AI-generated data
9/11/23 Newsweek: How AI and Quantum Computing are Challenging the Security of Our Digital Future
6/18/23 BBC: Can Artists Protect Their Work from AI?
2/13/23 The New York Times: This Tool Could Protect Artists From A.I.-Generated Art That Steals Their Style
3/1/21 MIT Technology Review: How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies
8/4/20 The Verge: Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition
8/3/20 The New York Times: This Tool Could Protect Your Photos from Facial Recognition
3/9/20 Tech by Vice: Researchers Want to Protect Your Selfies from Facial Recognition