Classes

Courses offered by the TRUE-AI Lab at Oregon State University.

Trustworthy ML Graduate
AI539 / CS499-599
Trustworthy ML
Offerings: Spring 2026 , Winter 2025 , Fall 2023 , Spring 2023 , Winter 2022

Instructor: Sanghyun Hong

Covers the security and privacy of machine learning systems. Topics include adversarial examples, data poisoning, backdoor attacks, membership inference, and defenses. Students read and present recent papers and complete a research project.

Cyber-Security Graduate
CS578
Cyber-Security
Offerings: Spring 2025

Instructor: Sanghyun Hong

Covers foundational and advanced topics in computer security: cryptography, network security, web security, OS security, memory safety, side channels, malware, and trustworthy ML. Includes paper reading and a semester-long research project.

Introduction to Security Undergraduate
CS370
Introduction to Security
Offerings: Spring 2023

Instructor: Sanghyun Hong

An introductory course on computer security for undergraduates. Topics include cryptography, network security, web security, software security, and trustworthy ML. Includes hands-on labs.

Operating Systems I Undergraduate
CS374 / CS344
Operating Systems I
Offerings: Spring 2026 , Winter 2023

Instructor: Sanghyun Hong

Covers the fundamentals of operating systems: processes, threads, scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, I/O, signals, sockets, and synchronization. Assignments are in C and Rust.

Relevant Courses at OSU

If you want to work in our lab, we recommend taking some of the courses that will prepare you with the necessary skills:

  • CS 372 Introduction to Computer Networks Undergrad Systems
  • CS 373 Defense Against the Dark Arts Undergrad Security
  • CS 427 Cryptography Undergrad Security
  • CS 472 Computer Architecture Undergrad Systems
  • CS 478 Network Security Undergrad Security
  • CS 517 Theory of Computation Graduate Security
  • CS 577 Privacy and Surveillance Graduate Security
  • CS 331 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Undergrad AI/ML
  • CS 434 Machine Learning and Data Mining Undergrad AI/ML
  • CS 435 Applied Deep Learning Undergrad AI/ML
  • CS 534 Machine Learning Graduate AI/ML
  • CS 535 Deep Learning Graduate AI/ML

In Action

Snapshots from our courses.

Trustworthy ML Class Final Presentation by Evan
Trustworthy ML, May 2023
Organized DSN-DSML 2023
DSN-DSML, July 2023