ICSI

ICSI is a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science.

With its unique focus on international collaboration and through its established international programs, ICSI brings together scientists from all over the world and at all stages of their career to work with established staff researchers, UC Berkeley professors, and their networks of academic, government, and industrial partners. More >>

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Featured project

Backdoor Detection via Eigenvalues, Hessians, Internal Behaviors, and Robust Statistics

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved impressive performance in several applications, there are several by now well-known sensitivities that they exhibit. Perhaps the most prominent of these is sensitivity in various types of adversarial environments.

Press

ICSI in Consumer Reports

How to Use Apple's Privacy Labels for Apps
December 18, 2020 | Thomas Germain, Consumer Reports

“Individual data points are seemingly meaningless by themselves, but deeply personal things can be inferred when they are looked at in the aggregate,” says Serge Egelman, a digital security and privacy researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies how apps gather consumer data.

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News

In Memory: John Ohala

John Ohala

This last week, Professor John Ohala passed away. This was very saddening to many people in the speech and language communities, but particularly to the many friends he had, not only in Berkeley, but all around the world.

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Executive Director Search

ICSI is seeking an experienced and collaborative administrative leader with significant management and operational expertise to serve as the next exective director. Learn more and apply.

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