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.

My research focuses on (i) secure, (ii) private and (iii) strategic machine learning. I am interested in researching methods to making 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.

> We have open positions in the for talented students! Please apply via e-mail.
> We have three Postdoc positions (to be filled by August 2025). Apply here.