Amin Karbasi

VP and Chief AI Scientist, Foundation AI

AI Software & Platform

Amin Karbasi leads Cisco Foundation AI as VP and Chief AI Scientist at Cisco. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley. Before Cisco, Amin was Chief Scientist at Robust Intelligence, which Cisco acquired, and previously held roles as a professor at Yale and a staff research scientist at Google. His work spans scalable optimization for foundation models, data curation, and AI privacy/security, with more than 150 publications in top-tier machine learning conferences.

Articles

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - AI

Amin Karbasi

Introducing Antares: Highly Efficient Open Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization

6 min read

Today, Cisco is introducing Antares, a family of security small language models (SLMs) purpose-built for one of the hardest, most time-consuming and expensive problems in security: pinpointing where known vulnerabilities exist within a codebase.....

SECURITY

Accelerate Security Operations with Cisco’s New Security-Tuned Model

3 min read

Explore a new frontier in LLM quality and speed. Cisco’s Foundation-Sec model delivers high-performance AI summaries for Splunk Security Operations workflows.

SECURITY

Yaron Singer

Amin Karbasi

Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-weight Security Reasoning Model

2 min read

Cisco Foundation AI introduces the first open-weight reasoning model for security.

SECURITY

AI search framework that teaches AI models to think like experts

3 min read

Cisco Foundation AI introduces AI search framework for more efficient search by models

SECURITY

Yaron Singer

Amin Karbasi

Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning: World’s First Security Reasoning Model

4 min read

Foundation AI's second release—Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning is designed to designed to bring enhanced analytical capabilities to complex security workflows.

SECURITY

Paul Kassianik

Amin Karbasi

Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models

5 min read

The performance of DeepSeek models has made a clear impact, but are these models safe and secure? We use algorithmic AI vulnerability testing to find out.