Friday, August 16, 2024
Waterloo CS student and professor on international team winning $2 million in DARPA AIxCC Cybersecurity Challenge
The AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, awarded seven semi-finalist teams $2 million USD each at DEF CON 32, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences.
Among the semi-finalists was 42-b3yond-6ug, a team with students and professors from six universities led by Northwestern University along with the University of Waterloo, University of Utah, University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins University, and University of New Hampshire.