Xavier Pleimling, PhD

Xavier Pleimling

Researching Privacy and Security in Artificial Intelligence

About Me

I am a PhD graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. My current research centers around the robustness, safety, and security of the data and model components of the AI pipeline. I am currently advised by Dr. Bimal Viswanath.

Research Publications

Off-The-Shelf Image-to-Image Models Are All You Need To Defeat Image Protection Schemes

Authors: Xavier Pleimling, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah, Gunjan Balde, Peng Gao, Mainack Mondal, Murtuza Jadliwala, Bimal Viswanath

4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML 2026)

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[Data] Quality Lies In The Eyes Of The Beholder

Authors: Xavier Pleimling, Vedant Shah, Ismini Lourentzou

15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2022)

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Contact

Email: xavierp7@vt.edu

Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

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