USENIX Security and AI Networking Conference: ScAINet 2018

The USENIX Security and AI Networking conference is a one-day invited talk symposium new in 2018, with Symantec as founding sponsor. It aims to bridge the academic and industry communities in the nascent area of security machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) and provides a complementary venue to peer-reviewed research conferences and workshops such as AISec and the IEEE S&P Deep Learning Workshop. In the spirit of bridging the two worlds, it was co-chaired by an academic, Polo Chau of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an industry research leader, Andrew B. Gardner, Head of AI/ML and the Center for Advanced Machine Learning (CAML) at Symantec. It was held in Atlanta, GA, on May 11th, with 122 attendees from many major security companies, as well as students and faculty from Georgia Tech, Emory, UC Berkeley, and more. Audience participation was lively, and there was a parallel discussion track on Twitter at the #ScAINet18 hashtag.