Leadership Team

Meet the team behind AI Village - researchers, engineers, and security professionals dedicated to advancing AI security.


Emanuel Gawrieh

Emanuel Gawrieh

R&D Labs Lead
Affiliation: Google
Expertise: AI Systems Security, Security Engineering and Architecture

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

Steering Committee Lead

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 Kumar

Steering Committee Member
Affiliation: Google
Expertise: Applied Generative Modeling

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 Cattell

Founder, GRT3 Lead
Affiliation: nbhd.ai
Expertise: ML Defense, Geometric data analysis

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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🌟 Community Recognition

AI Village believes in recognizing the contributions of our community members. Our recognition programs include:

πŸ† Research Awards

Outstanding AI security research contributions

🎯 CTF Champions

Top performers in our competitions and challenges

🀝 Community Builder

Exceptional contribution to community growth

πŸŽ“ Educator Excellence

Outstanding teaching and knowledge sharing