reportsEvent Recap

Opening

Cybersecurity and global collaboration in the age of AI

At the opening of the workshop, Takeshi Takahashi, Director General of the Center for Research on AI Security and Technology Evolution (CREATE), delivered opening remarks and expressed his appreciation to all participants. He explained that this workshop as CREATE’s inaugural international workshop, aimed at strengthening U.S.–Japan collaboration in the field of AI security, and emphasized that global collaboration is essential to ensure AI safety and to address increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. He also expressed the intention to develop a platform for sustained joint research and information sharing through activities such as this workshop.
This was followed by a welcome address from Daisuke Inoue, Director General of the Cybersecurity Research Institute, NICT. Inoue stated that ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI is a global challenge for the society, and noted the growing importance of global collaboration, including collaboration between Japan and the United States. He also expressed his expectation that the workshop would contribute to the further advancement of U.S.–Japan cooperation in the field of AI security.

Sessions

Frontline of U.S.–Japan cybersecurity research

A total of eight speakers, including Takahashi, presented their research across three sessions. Each presentation was followed by a Q&A session, during which participants from Japan and the United States engaged in active discussions.

The speakers and their presentation titles are listed below:

• Name

  Affiliation

  Presentation Title
• Dr. Takeshi Takahashi

  Director General, Center for Research on AI Security and Technology Evolution, NICT

  NICT’s new challenge on AI Security
• Dr. Justin Lieffers

  Senior AI Security Engineer, MITRE

  A Conversation on AI-Accelerated Threats & Mitigations
• Ms. Amanda Walker

  Senior Director, Engineering - Privacy, Safety and Security (PSS), Google

  Google AI Safety and Security
• Dr. Seira Hidano

  Expert, KDDI Research Inc.

  AI Security Portal
• Prof. Howie Huang

  Director, GraphLab, George Washington University

  Achieving Autonomous Network Security with Graph AI Agents
• Prof. Massimiliano Albanese

  Director, Center for Infrastructure Security in the Era of AI, George Mason University

  AI and Infrastructure Security: Building Resilient Systems Through Research and Partnership
• Prof. Frank Hsu

  Director of LIDM Lab, Fordham University

  Combinatorial Fusion on Kemeny Rank Space: DoS/DDoS Intrusion Detection and Mitigation
• Dr. Hyrum Anderson

  CISCO

  Specialized Foundation Models for Security

Poster presentations: Cybersecurity research in Japan in the age of AI

The poster session was conducted in two parts. First, flash talks were held to provide brief overviews of each poster, followed by poster presentations and discussions held in front of the posters during the break. Participants visited posters of interest and engaged in active discussions and Q&A with the presenters.

List of poster presenters:

• Name

  Affiliation
• Tao Ban

  Chief Senior Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Chansu Han

  Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Cheng-Feng Hung

  Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Muhammad Fakhrur Rozi

  Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Harry Chandra Tanuwidjaja

  Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Keisuke Furumoto

  Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Tomohiro Morikawa

  Invited Researcher, CREATE, NICT
• Mutsuki Shitamukai

  Research Assistant, CREATE, NICT
• Norihiro Shimada

  Research Assistant, CREATE, NICT
• Haruna Tanaka

  Research Assistant, CREATE, NICT
• Soma Kato

  Research Assistant, CREATE, NICT
• Yutaka Oiwa

  AI Quality Management Initiative, AIST
• Yoshiki Seo

  AI Quality Management Initiative, AIST
• Roy Sugimura

  Supervisory Innovation Coordinator, AIST
• Koichi Konishi

  AI Quality Management Initiative, AIST

Closing

Expectations for continuous U.S.–Japan collaboration in AI security

Hiroyuki Yano, Vice President of NICT, delivered the closing remarks. He expressed his appreciation to the speakers and participants, and emphasized the importance of maintaining ongoing dialogue and sharing insights among trusted partners while the cybersecurity landscape is evolving rapidly in the age of AI. He also expressed his expectation that this workshop will be positioned to develop as a platform for ongoing discussions and further strengthen U.S.–Japan collaboration in the field of AI security.