Human Computer Interaction and Online Pr...

News recommendation algorithms influence far more than what stories we click—they can shape our understanding of the world. In this episode, Kyle Polich speaks with Andreea Iana about responsible AI, filter bubbles, multilingual news recommendation, and her open-source NewsRecLib ... Show More

What if you could simply tell a recommendation system what you want instead of relying on likes, dislikes, and watch history? Kyle Polich talks with Fuyuan Lyu about the DPR framework, which combines large language models and traditional recommender systems to give users direct c ... Show More

How can researchers audit recommendation systems when the algorithms are hidden from view? Hieu Le joins Kyle Polich to discuss Auto-Like, a reinforcement learning framework that systematically explores how platforms like TikTok personalize content feeds. The conversation covers ... Show More

Entrepreneur Tom Ilube talks about his work with scientists to deploy their research in the battle against cybercrime, tech advances and education in Africa and why companies need to take cyber security more seriously.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. ... Show More

The Hashing it Out team speaks with Ameen Soleimani, co-author of the Privacy Pools paper - Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium. Ameen, along with Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (Universi ... Show More

To share or not to share is a question that we should be asking ourselves every once in a while before posting on social media platforms especially after the most recent hacks that have gone viral on social media platforms. In this episode, Associate Professor of Electrical and C ... Show More

Today we’re joined by Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Google Brain. Nicholas works at the intersection of machine learning and computer security, and his recent paper “Extracting Training Data from LLMs” has generated quite a buzz within the ML community. In our convers ... Show More

Adam Ficsor (nopara73), a Bitcoin privacy developer and CTO of zkSNACKs joins me to talk about his new wallet, Wasabi Wallet. We talk about: Privacy being for everyone Comparison with other privacy projects, such as Monero, or other Bitcoin mixing services ZeroLink ... Show More

The Hashing it Out team sits down with Jordi Baylina to discuss everything from his involvement in the Catalan Independence Movement, DApp Node, and Giveth to technical details associated in bringing privacy and compression to zk proofs via recursion. 

This week my guest is Alekh Agarwal. Alekh is a researcher with Microsoft Research whose research is focused on Interactive Machine Learning. In our discussion, Alekh and I discuss various aspects of this exciting area of research such as active learning, reinforcement learning, ... Show More

Today we’re joined by Tom Goldstein, an associate professor at the University of Maryland. Tom’s research sits at the intersection of ML and optimization and has previously been featured in the New Yorker for his work on invisibility cloaks, clothing that can evade object detecti ... Show More

Reformed Hacker Bastien Treptel and the Team at CTRL Group take us through managing our cyber risks and security in an age where cyber-attacks can be carried out with ease. Detailing risks in the Start-Up, SME industries and cloud services as well as giving us an insight into how ... Show More