{"id":215682,"date":"2026-02-20T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:08","slug":"computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science professor studies the intersection of cybersecurity and AI\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/\">Computer science professor studies the intersection of cybersecurity and AI\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/\">https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 11:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.uga.edu\">news.uga.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phishing attacks. Jailbreaking and social engineering attacks. Malicious advertisements. These have all become part of the day in\u00a0the life\u00a0for most everyone who depends on a web connection for their work and livelihood. University of Georgia\u00a0cybersecurity expert Roberto\u00a0Perdisci\u00a0welcomes a greater awareness of the threats that have long been at the center of his professional life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI initially came to the U.S.\u00a0as a research scholar to deepen my doctoral\u00a0work in Italy, which was at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity,\u201d said\u00a0Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and\u00a0director of the UGA Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy. \u201cAnd back then, it was already a big thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attracted to the U.S.\u00a0to work with Wenke Lee, Regents\u2019\u00a0Professor\u00a0and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair in Software in the Georgia Tech College of Computing,\u00a0Perdisci\u00a0completed a post-doctoral\u00a0fellowship with Lee after finishing his Ph.D. and joined the UGA faculty in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quick transition is indicative of what continues to be a high demand field. \u201cWith all the development of AI agents, the intersection with\u00a0cybersecurity has become even more prevalent,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perdisci\u2019s\u00a0research primarily focuses on using machine learning and AI as tools to improve cybersecurity, rather than the safety and security of AI systems themselves. Understanding the distinction is instructive to understanding the many uses\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and potential misuses\u00a0\u2014\u00a0of large language models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security and safety of AI models themselves refer to attacks on AI systems, whether self-driving cars that\u00a0encounter\u00a0defaced road signs or nefarious attempts to trick an LLM\u00a0such as\u00a0Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT or Google\u2019s\u00a0Gemini with illicit or illegal prompts. \u201cThat\u2019s known as jailbreaking, because the AI system is working within safeguards,\u00a0and you\u2019re trying to break those safeguards to misuse the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science professor studies the intersection of cybersecurity and AI\u00a0 https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/computer-science-professor-studies-the-intersection-of-cybersecurity-and-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-20 11:29:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RobertPerdisci.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,18,25,57],"class_list":["post-215682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215684,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215682\/revisions\/215684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}