Mathias Lecuyer

Mathias Lecuyer is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Computer Science, where he leads the Systopia research group. His research focuses on trustworthy AI systems, including differential privacy, adversarial robustness, and causal machine learning. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research (New York)

Research Interests:

• Privacy-preserving machine learning (Differential Privacy)
• Certified adversarial robustness via randomized smoothing
• Causal inference for model generalization
• Systems for privacy and security in AI

Awards:

• SOSP Distinguished Artifact Honourable Mention (2024)
• Google Research Award

Supervised Students:

• PhD: Qiaoyue Tang, Saiyue Lyu, Frederick Shpilevskiy
• MSc: Mishaal Kazmi, Shadab Shaikh, Shiqi He
• Undergrad: Alain Zhiyanov, Jessica Bator, Ryan Shar, Eric Xiong, Joel Hempel

Labs/Teams: Member of UBC S&P, TrustML, and CAIDA research groups.