Scholar
Nils Lukas
Google Scholar ID: fmlEab4AAAAJ
MBZUAI
Citations & Impact
Citations
965
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received the Waterloo Alumni Gold Medal and Top Mathematics Doctoral Prize in 2024; multiple papers accepted at NeurIPS'25, EMNLP'25, ICML'25, and other top conferences; first place in the NeurIPS'24 watermark removal challenge with a prize of $4,400; first place in the GITEX Cybersecurity hackathon with a prize of $10,800; Best Poster Award at Cheriton Symposium; Distinguished Contribution Award at Microsoft MLADS.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at MBZUAI since 2024. Interned at Microsoft Research and gave research talks at Google and MongoDB.
Education
- PhD from U. Waterloo (2019-2024); MSc from RWTH-Aachen (2016-2018).
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, leading the Secure, Private, Open and Trustworthy AI lab. Research interests include secure, private, and strategic machine learning.
Miscellany
- Teaching courses including ML8502 (Machine Learning Security), ML807 (Federated Learning), and ML818 (Trustworthy Machine Learning).
