Amin Karbasi

Senior Director

Foundation AI

Amin Karbasi, Ph.D., is a Senior Director of Data Science at Cisco where he spearheads the company's research initiatives in the ever-evolving field of AI safety and security. He is also an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Yale University (currently on leave). Amin previously served as the Chief Science Officer at Robust Intelligence before the acquisition by Cisco, as well as a Staff Researcher for Google AI where he made many significant contributions to scalable optimization for foundation models, data curation, and AI privacy. Over his career, Amin’s groundbreaking AI work has been published over 150 times in top-tier ML conferences.

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.