Trustworthy AI pioneer Nicolas Papernot wins 2026 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship
VectorInst · x · 2026-10-26
Nicolas Papernot, associate professor at the University of Toronto and Vector Institute researcher, has been awarded a 2026 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship by NSERC for establishing the scientific foundations of trustworthy AI.
- He helped found the field of adversarial machine learning, showing how seemingly accurate AI systems can be systematically deceived with crafted inputs.
- His team built techniques to strengthen model robustness and privacy, notably using zero-knowledge proofs to audit key properties of AI systems without exposing proprietary models or sensitive training data.
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