Talks and presentations

Claude–Climbing a CTF Scoreboard Near You

August 09, 2025

Talk, DEF CON 33, Las Vegas, Nevada

Over the past few months, we’ve thrown Claude into the digital trenches of multiple cybersecurity competitions—from defending vulnerable networks at CCDC to cracking challenges in PicoCTF and HackTheBox. In this talk, I’ll take you through our journey deploying an AI assistant against human red teams and live CTF challenges. I’ll show you Claude’s unexpected wins (landing in the top 3% globally in PicoCTF and successfully fending off red team attacks at CCDC) alongside its entertaining fails (devolving into security philosophy when overwhelmed, making up flags for PlaidCTF when stuck).

Conference Presentation: Adversarial Training for Raw-Binary Malware Classifiers

August 09, 2023

Presentation, 32nd USENIX Security Symposium,

Conference Presentation: Any-Play: an Intrinsic Augmentation for Zero-Shot Coordination

May 11, 2022

Presentation, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2022,

Conference Presentation: Malware Makeover: Breaking ML-based Static Analysis by Modifying Executable Bytes

June 07, 2021

Presentation, Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security,

Workshop Presentation: Adversarial Training with a Surrogate

December 07, 2020

Presentation, Neurips 2020 NewInML Workshop,

Explored surrogate neural network capability to aid adversarial training for hard to differentiate perturbations