Guten Tag, I’m Nils 👋. I’m an Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi leading the Secure, Private, Open and Trustworthy  AI lab. I have received Waterloo's 2024 Alumni Gold medal and my PhD thesis received the Top Mathematics Doctoral Prize.

My research focuses on (i) secure, (ii) private and (iii) strategic machine learning. I am interested in researching methods to make large ML system accessible to millions of users in a responsible way. This includes topics such as content watermarking, privacy-preserving inference, AI safety & security and developing conversational agents with social intelligence.

I am currently teaching ML8502 (Machine Learning Security). In Spring'25, I taught ML807 (Federated Learning) and in Fall'24 I taught ML818 (Trustworthy Machine Learning).

> We have open positions in the for talented students! Please apply via e-mail (my personal email or spot.ai@mbzuai.ac.ae).