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ZAFARYAB HAIDER

AI Security & Trustworthy Machine Learning Former Assistant Professor, ZHCET — AMU

Adversarial and bit-level fault attacks on multimodal and speech models, RLHF training-signal integrity, trust under corrupted majorities, and harm amplification in multi-agent LLM systems.

08Published/Accepted
04Under Review
04Patents Filed
$25KFunded
Portrait of Zafaryab Haider
Role
Ph.D. Candidate, ECE
Affil
SIEGE Lab, UMaine
Member
IEEE
RESEARCH.FOCUS
01Bit-Level AI SecurityBLADE / SMASH
02RLHF & Trust EstimationCOBRA / ACT
03Multi-Agent LLM HarmHARP
04LLM ReliabilityINTACT
05Grid World ModelsREWIRE
01/SELECTED_RESEARCH
08 SELECTED
01REWIREActive
Grid World Models / Critical Infrastructure
SinceAug 2026

Topology-aware world models for electricity-grid reconfiguration — ranking line-switching candidates via learned imagined rollouts, verified by exact AC power-flow simulation.

02INTACTUpcoming
LLM Reliability
StartSep 2026

Whether token-level logits, probabilities and generation-time signals from autoregressive LLMs give reliable evidence of incorrect or unsupported outputs.

03SMASH
AI Model Security / Targeted Speech Faults
VenueNeurIPS

Semantically targeted sparse parameter bit flips in speech-recognition models, with robustness and failure analysis.

04ACTAccepted
Trustworthy ML / Trust Estimation
VenueIEEE CARS Year2026

Anchor-calibrated trusted/corrupted cohort recovery when corrupted sources form the majority.

05HARP
Multi-Agent LLM Harm / Harm Amplification
VenueIEEE S&P

Local-to-system harm amplification in multi-agent LLM systems — how compromised agents propagate failures.

06BLADE
AI Model Security / Bit-Level VLM Faults
VenueIEEE TIFS

Sparse bit-level fault analysis and semantic steering in quantized vision-language models.

07COBRAPublished
Trustworthy ML / RLHF Integrity
VenueNature Sci. Reports Year2025

Consensus-based reward mitigating malicious human-in-the-loop feedback during RLHF training of LLMs.

08DASHPublished
Adversarial ML / Meta-Attack
VenueCVPR Year2026

Meta-attack framework composing existing attack primitives to synthesize effective and stealthy adversarial examples.

// EARLIER RESEARCH Whale-call classification · BEiTv2 cancer imaging · HAR · assistive systems · earlier software View archive →
02/TEACHING & ENGINEERING
SUMMARY
// TEACHING
  • UMaine TA — Microprocessor, Sequential Logic & Cybersecurity labs
  • AMU Information Security · Data Structures · OOP · C · Internet Tools
  • Full teaching record →
// ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
  • 2026 Human Evaluation & AI Assessment Platform
  • 2025 Adversarial Evaluation Tooling
  • 2024 Distributed / Edge LLM Inference