Trustworthy Machine Learning

Host University

Virginia Tech

Semester

Fall 2026

Course Number

ECE-6514

CRN

84709

Credits

3

Discipline

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Times and Days

11:00am-12:15pm

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Course Information

Fundamentals of trustworthy machine learning. Overview of modern machine learning techniques and the associated security, privacy, and data quality issues, adversarial machine learning (e.g., decision-time attacks & defenses, data poisoning attacks & defenses, robustness certification), privacy-preserving machine learning (e.g., membership inference attacks, model inversion attacks, differential privacy, and federated learning), strategic data collection and utilization (e.g., data valuation, data selection).

Prerequisites

ECE 5424 (MIN grade of P) or CS 5824 (MIN grade of P) Prerequisites Enforced: Yes