Eugene Bagdasarian

• Program

  AI Safety Science

• Institution

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Location

  USA

Dr. Eugene Bagdasarian is an Assistant Professor at UMass Amherst CICS. Eugene’s work focuses on security and privacy in emerging AI-based systems and agentic use-cases under real-life conditions and attacks.
He completed his PhD at Cornell Tech advised by Vitaly Shmatikov and Deborah Estrin. Eugene’s research was recognized by Apple Scholars in AI/ML and Digital Life Initiative fellowships and Usenix Security Distinguished Paper Award. He received an engineering degree from Baumanka and worked at Cisco as a software engineer. Eugene has extensive industry experience (Cisco, Amazon, Apple) and spends part of his time as a Research Scientist at Google.

In partnership with Dr. Zilberstein, his funded project will develop a methodology that allows AI agents to evaluate the trustworthiness of other AI agents and adjust their own behavior accordingly.