- PhD Student
I am a PhD student supervised by Prof. Robert Mullins and co-supervised by Dr. Yiren Zhao. I am funded by the Tazaki Cambridge Studentship and a member of Downing College. My research interest is in Machine Learning Security. Currently I am also a student researcher at Google Deepmind London.
Biography
- Summer 2025: I was a research intern at the Vector Institute under Prof. Nicolas Papernot.
- Fall 2024 ~ : I am currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
- Summer 2024: I was a research intern in the System Security lab of TU Darmstadt under Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
- 2023-2024: I finished my MPhil in Advanced Computer Science under supervision of Prof. Ross Anderson, Prof. Robert Mullins and Dr. Ilia Shumailov.
- 2019-2023: I graduated with a BSc in Natural Sciences (Computer Science, Mathematics) from Durham University under supervision of Dr. Ehsan Toreini and Dr. Gagangeet Aujla. During this time I also studied abroad for one year from 2021-2022 at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Seoul National University in South Korea.
Teaching
- Data Science: Michaelmas 2024-25 for St. John's, Peterhouse and Girton (11 students)
- Algorithms 1: Lent 2024-25 for St. John's, Peterhouse and Girton (12 students)
- Algorithms 2: Lent 2024-25 for St. John's, Peterhouse and Girton (12 students)
Publications
- Hanna Foerster, Robert Mullins, Ilia Shumailov, Jamie Hayes. Beyond Slow Signs in High-fidelity Model Extraction. Conference on Neural InformationProcessing Systems (NeurIPS'24)
- Cheng Zhang, Hanna Foerster, Robert Mullins, Yiren Zhao, Ilia Shumailov. Hardware and Software Platform Inference. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25) Arxiv preprint
- Hanna Foerster, Sasha Behrouzi, Phillip Rieger, Murtuza Jadliwala, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi. LightShed: Defeating Perturbation-based Image Copyright Protections. 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'25) USENIX preprint
