Chicago Data Night: Sanjay Krishnan (UChicago)

Please join us for our monthly Chicago Data Night, cohosted by Drive Capital, ChiData and the DSI. Practitioners, academics, and aficionados within the Chicago area are all invited to be part of a community at the intersection of industry and academia, brought together by a mutual interest in data. Each month, guest speakers will cover a specific data-related topic.

Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided. Admission is free, and we strongly encourage an RSVP to attend. Please note our new event location at Drive Capital!

Meeting Location
Drive Capital, Fulton East Building
215 N Peoria St
Chicago, IL 60607

Abstract:  The primary role of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to defend an organization against threats such as hacking and other types of electronic fraud/malfeasance. Due to a confluence of technological and human factors many organizations face a new set of cybersecurity threats that don’t neatly fit into a CISO’s current job description. Such threats include insider leaks, intellectual property theft, and AI manipulated inauthentic data — attacks that target or use privileged “knowledge” rather than device or data compromise. I will talk about the growing severity of knowledge-based attacks and the technical solutions developed in a new startup.

Bio: Sanjay Krishnan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Head of Research at EchoMark Inc. He has a number of publications, awards, patents, and serves on the organization committees of SIGMOD and VLDB. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2018 and a BS/MS in 2012.