Halima Bouzidi

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Hi! I’m Halima 👋

🎯 I’m on the job market for R&D roles in 2026!

🔬 Postdoctoral Scholar at the Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems (AICPS) Lab at UCI

🌟 Previously: Research Fellow in Trustworthy AI at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

🚀 Research Focus

I’m a Machine Learning and Security researcher focused on developing AI systems that are secure, efficient, and aligned with real-world demands. I work on adversarial security tools and trustworthy AI methods for auditing and strengthening the robustness of ML systems, ensuring they behave safely and reliably in practical deployment. My expertise spans Secure and Trustworthy AI, Adversarial Machine Learning, and Efficient AI deployment.

My research lives at the exciting intersection of:

• 🛡️ Secure Machine Learning: Adversarial Attacks and Defenses, Robustness Evaluation, Red-teaming of ML Systems, AI for Security.
• 🤖 Efficient Machine Learning: Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS), Deep Neural Networks, Edge AI, Energy-efficiency.
• 🎯 Hardware-Software Co-Design: Sensor-ML Co-design for Security, Hardware-Software Co-design for Efficiency, Multi-objective Optimization.