Dr. Yisroel Mirsky

Yisroel Mirsky is a Tenure-Track Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University. He received his Ph.D. from BGU in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Wenke Lee’s lab at Georgia Tech. His main research interests include deepfakes, adversarial machine learning, anomaly detection, and intrusion detection. Mirsky has published his work in some of the best security venues: USENIX, CCS, NDSS, Euro S&P, Black Hat, DEF CON, CSF, AISec, etc. His research has also been featured in many well-known media outlets: Popular Science, Scientific American, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and BBC. For example, he has exposed vulnerabilities in the US 911 emergency services and demonstrated the threat of deepfakes in medical scans, both featured in The Washington Post.