Bahman Sistany

Bahman joined Irdeto in 2003 as a Compiler Designer, Bahman since then worked on several advanced application-level security features such as various control flow obfuscations. He has held several roles, including manager of large development, infrastructure and QA teams and later as a product evangelist and owner. More recently, Bahman has been leading research into obfuscation and tamper resistance technology, high assurance software protection and functional safety, application of AI/ML systems to security, and confidentiality/privacy of ML systems. Bahman holds a PhD in computer science (formal verification) from University of Ottawa.

What Would Privacy-Preserving ML Look Like? — Part 2

by Bahman Sistany | Jan 16, 2020 | Cybersecurity

In my previous post, we covered why protecting the privacy (and confidentiality) of data is so paramount and how ML-based systems amplify privacy concerns due to the sheer amount of data and the processing power available. We also discussed why the naive approach for...

What Would Privacy-Preserving ML Look Like?

by Bahman Sistany | Nov 18, 2019 | Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have made huge gains over the last few years, thanks to the vast amount of data available and to the gains made in raw hardware processing power e.g., powerful CPUs, GPUs and more recently TPUs (tensor processing...