Thorsten is a tenure-track faculty member at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at BIFOLD and TU Berlin and earned his PhD from Ruhr University Bochum, where he was part of the Cluster of Excellence CASA. His research focuses on machine learning and computer security, particularly on attacks against learning-based models and defenses to improve their robustness. This work often involves looking beyond the model itself and examining the entire computational pipeline, including the underlying hardware and software stack.

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Prof. Iyad Rahwan is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans & Machines. He is also an honorary professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. Prior to moving to Berlin, he was an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A native of Aleppo, Syria, Rahwan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Rahwan's research agenda, which he calls science fiction science, anticipates the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the way we think, learn, work, play, cooperate and govern. His work appeared in the world’s leading academic journals, including Science and Nature, and features regularly in media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. His artistic and scientific work was also featured in some of the world’s leading cultural institutions, such as Ars Electronica, Science Museum London and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Lea Schönherr is a tenure-track faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. She received her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in 2021 with a dissertation on adversarially robust speech and speaker recognition, supported by the DFG Cluster of Excellence CASA. After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr University Bochum and CISPA. Her research focuses on the security of AI systems, spanning LLMs and agentic pipelines, speech and audio models, code-generating models, synthetic media and deepfake detection, and the human factors involved in AI-driven threats. Her work covers both attacks and defenses, aiming to build AI that is secure, safe, and reliable. Recent projects include safeguards for LLMs, LLM capture-the-flag evaluations, multi-agent negotiation frameworks, benchmarks for insecure code generation, deepfake image and audio detection, and representative studies on how humans perceive AI-generated media.

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Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regards to artificial intelligence. Judith Simon is Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council, where she also was the spokesperson for the opinion on "Humans and Machines – Challenges of Artificial Intelligence". She has been serving on various other committees of scientific policy advice such as the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government (2018-2019). She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (2020) and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of the journals “Philosophy and Technology”, "Big Data & Society" and "Digital Society”.

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