Matan Ben-Tov

Matan Ben-Tov

I am a Computer Science PhD student at Tel Aviv University and an AI security researcher in the Privacy, Learning, Usability, and Security (PLUS) research group, advised by Dr. Mahmood Sharif. During my BSc, I worked as a software engineer in the mobile malware detection team at Check Point Research, and currently act as software/ML engineer in several projects.

I am interested in the security of NLP systems and models. In particular, I explore the execution, practicality, implications and potential mitigations of attacks against Natural Language Processing (NLP) models aiming to better understand what makes these models vulnerable to certain attacks.

Selected Publications

Blog

NanoPGD: Minimal Implmentation of PGD 🐼➡️🐒

PGD is the perfect [adversarial] example of neural networks’ vulnerabilities. I implemented a compact version of this method, that can be …

Squeezing More Out of Vec2Text with Embedding Space Alignment 🧃

Transferring previously-trained Vec2Text’s embedding inversion to new text encoders, by training a mere affine mapping.