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My name is Sebastian Szyller and I'm a tenure track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. I lead new . I'm interested in different ways that we can protect machine learning models and data to enable secure and trustworthy analysis -- both in terms of the technical details as well as legislation compliance.

Prior to returning ÄûÃʵ¼º½ University I was a research scientist at , where I worked on provenance & ownership, privacy and adversarial robustness in generative, multimodal machine learning systems.

I did my MSc and PhD as part of the doctoral track which is a joint MSc and PhD programme at Aalto University. Both my graduate and doctoral studies (including the) were supervised by . My doctoral dissertation received , and Aalto University Best Dissertation Award.

I did my BSc in computer science at (and briefly ), and wrote my under the supervision of . I was also a member (and eventually a vice-president) of the student government at my faculty, a member of the scholarship committee, and I organised language workshops for students. In parallel, I worked as a big data and Scala software engineer at an investment bank.

In my free time, I enjoy film & street photography, custom mechanical keyboards, industrial design, bouldering and fixed-gear cycling. In the previous life, I was a member of a British Parliamentary style debate club .