Leadership Team
Meet the team behind AI Village - researchers, engineers, and security professionals dedicated to advancing AI security.
Emanuel Gawrieh
Emanuel Gawrieh is a Senior Security Engineer at Google, where he specializes in securing workloads in hybrid, distributed architectures for public sector customers and is part of the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) team advising on hardware and infrastructure security for AI Systems.
Emanuel’s has over 10 years of experience securing high performance workloads with unique hardware and infrastructure requirements across compliance regimes, and - more recently - has been working with the AI Village to prove out hardware and infrastructure configurations aiming at more efficient infrastructure for model serving, red and purple teaming, and acceleration methods best suited to the context.
Emanuel has a background in public policy. He attended Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. after studying Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Lauren Putvin
Lauren Putvin began her security journey as a data scientist in GRC creating data driven security metrics and policy changes. She has most recently worked in security product development at various companies. She has a PhD in biomedical engineering (classifying sensor data).
Ravin Kumar
Ravin is a probabilistic programming enthusiast. He brings applied experience as a data scientist at Google with prior experience at companies like SpaceX and Sweetgreen.
Ravin contributes frequently to Open Source projects such as PyMC. He also is an educator, having published textbooks and courses on the topic.
Previously, Ravin worked at SpaceX and Sweetgreen using Bayesian Statistics to assess and improve orbital rocket launches and optimize avocado preparation (among many other ingredients). He now works on the Labs team at Google on large scale generative models, with a focus on safety and security.
Ravin received his Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona and University of Wisconsin Madison respectively.
Sven Cattell
Sven founded the AI Village in 2018 and has been running it ever since. He was the principal organizer of AIV’s Generative Red Team at DEFCON 31. Sven is also the founder of nbhd.ai, a startup focused on the security and integrity of datasets and the AI they build. He was previously a senior data scientist at Elastic where he built the malware model training pipeline. He has a PhD in Algebraic Topology, and a postdoc in geometric machine learning where he focused on anomaly and novelty detection.
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AI Village is always looking for passionate individuals to join our mission. We welcome contributions from:
🔬 Researchers
- AI/ML security specialists
- Academic researchers
- Industry practitioners
🛠️ Engineers
- Software developers
- Security engineers
- DevOps specialists
🎓 Educators
- Workshop leaders
- Content creators
- Community managers
📋 Organizers
- Event coordinators
- Logistics support
- Marketing/outreach
🌟 Community Recognition
AI Village believes in recognizing the contributions of our community members. Our recognition programs include:
🏆 Research Awards
Outstanding AI security research contributions
🎯 CTF Champions
Top performers in our competitions and challenges
🤝 Community Builder
Exceptional contribution to community growth
🎓 Educator Excellence
Outstanding teaching and knowledge sharing