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Amin Karbasi
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
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.....
Explore a new frontier in LLM quality and speed. Cisco’s Foundation-Sec model delivers high-performance AI summaries for Splunk Security Operations workflows.
Cisco Foundation AI introduces the first open-weight reasoning model for security.
Cisco Foundation AI introduces AI search framework for more efficient search by models
Foundation AI's second release—Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning is designed to designed to bring enhanced analytical capabilities to complex security workflows.
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.