Giorgio Severi

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Boston, MA

I am a Senior AI Safety Researcher at Microsoft, with the AI Red Team. I received my PhD from Northeastern University, where I worked in the NDS2 lab, advised by professor Alina Oprea.

My primary interest lies in machine learning security and safety. I have worked across several areas of adversarial machine learning, focusing on the analysis and exploitation of AI systems, particularly in security-sensitive applications. My work also explores the intersection of adversarial robustness and model interpretability.

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Feb 10, 2026 Our paper GRP-Obliteration: Unaligning LLMs With a Single Unlabeled Prompt is now available on ArXiv
Feb 5, 2026 Our paper The Trigger in the Haystack: Extracting and Reconstructing LLM Backdoor Triggers is now available on ArXiv
Jul 8, 2025 Our paper A Systematization of Security Vulnerabilities in Computer Use Agents is now available on ArXiv
Jun 4, 2025 Our paper A Representation Engineering Perspective on the Effectiveness of Multi-Turn Jailbreaks is now available on ArXiv
Jun 1, 2025 Our paper Weathering the CUA Storm: Mapping Security Threats in the Rapid Rise of Computer Use Agents was accepted at the ICML 2025 Workshop on Computer Use Agents!

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