About AI Village

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.

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 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.

Brian Reeves is a Cloud Security Architect at Google, where he specializes in AI security and architecting the future of secure AI. He helps develop and externalize Google’s Secure AI Framework (SAIF), designed to guide the secure development and deployment of AI systems, and collaborates closely with internal Red Teams to proactively identify and mitigate emerging threats.

Brian brings over 15 years of expertise in building robust, compliance-driven cloud solutions for cutting-edge technologies across highly regulated industries, including HIPAA, FedRAMP, and DoD compliance regimes. He focuses on ensuring the integrity, privacy, and resilience of AI systems, bridging the gap between innovative technology and stringent compliance requirements.

Emanuel Gawrieh is a Senior Security Engineer, et cetera 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.

Bill founded ServiceNow’s first cross-organizational AI Red Team for GenAI adversarial testing and launched its AI Control Tower. A cybersecurity veteran from the early Internet, startups, cloud, enterprise architecture, and AI, his expertise spans FedRAMP, NIST AI/ML RMF, EU AI Act compliance, and secure GPU enclaves. He serves on the CoSAI Technical Steering Committee, the AI Alliance, and the DEF CON AI Village Steering Committee. He began his career as a crypto and network technician in the U.S. Army.

Mohamed AbuMuslim is a security researcher and offensive security engineer focused on red teaming, adversarial AI, and product security engineering. He specializes in evaluating complex systems under realistic attack conditions, with experience spanning web applications, APIs, cloud environments, enterprise infrastructure, Active Directory, and large language model integrations.

His work combines offensive security operations with research and development, with a strong emphasis on uncovering novel attack paths, improving security validation practices, and strengthening product security maturity. He has led and delivered assessments across traditional and emerging technology stacks, covering penetration testing, adversary emulation, purple teaming, static and dynamic analysis, and AI security evaluation.

Mohamed is also a speaker, educator, and community leader who regularly contributes to the security industry through conference talks, workshops, research, and public technical content. He is a Steering Committee member at AI Village, an organizer of BSides Albuquerque, a board member at OWASP Cairo, and an active contributor to practitioner education through social platforms and YouTube.

Joshua is the founder of ATSK, where he advises operators and investors on technical diligence and systems architecture. He has spent two decades building and operating cloud, data, and observability systems, including years delivering Splunk Professional Services. He has worked with manufacturers, retailers, energy companies, financial institutions, credit bureaus, healthcare organizations, universities, and government agencies across North America, Europe, and Asia.

He led architecture and operations for a multi-tenant SaaS platform running Kubernetes across AWS and GCP. He designed and built its IAM/SSO and access controls, and treats security as part of engineering and operations, not a handoff.

Observability taught him to model how organizations and systems actually work. The same discipline now runs through his work on agent systems using local and frontier models: tool boundaries, approval gates, prompt injection, and the telemetry required to tell whether any of it is actually behaving. At AI Village, he serves on the steering committee, runs the website, and works on the infrastructure and operations teams.

Emily Soward has over 15 years of experience in AI R&D with specializations in governance, operations, and security. She is a serial innovator, inventor, founder, and leader in AI incident response, ecological and edge AI research, and AI security in critical infrastructure. Emily has given talks in the US and internationally on AI. She’s spoken at DEFCON on AI use in security teams, MITRE ATT&CKcon on where MITRE’s TTPs and mitigations fall short in face of the current threat landscape, at RSTCON on how AI impacts cybersecurity for the U.S. electrical grid, and several private talks and panels. She is notable for her courses and teaching in AI governance, risk management, operations, and security that have reached over 150K learners in 16 languages, as well as her work on AI and ML frameworks and policy.

Emily has engaged on AI with U.S. and International cyber and national security policy leadership, the HITRUST Alliance AI Assurance Working Group, NIST, MITRE, OWASP, ISACA, and over 28% of the Fortune 100. Her contributions to the HITRUST supported the launch of the first cybersecurity certification for deployed AI systems. In 2024, she cofounded the AI Incident Response & Control (AIRCTL), an open-source project making top AI security skills accessible for small and under-resourced organizations. Emily is the CEO and Founder of Realis Solutions Group, a risk services firm.

Sam Mosley is an engineer whose work sits at the intersection of security, systems design, and applied AI. They are currently a cyberspace research developer, working on advanced research and development for national security applications. Over their career, they’ve built risk-modeling frameworks that treat complex systems as networks to quantify security exposure, architected multi-agent AI systems to automate technical workflows, led cloud migrations of legacy infrastructure, and designed embedded hardware and firmware for custom electronics. That range gives them a systems-level view of how security, infrastructure, and AI actually interact in practice.

Outside of work, Sam is the Founder and President of CodeBloom, a nonprofit that teaches programming concepts through physical, interactive games for underrepresented communities. They’ve been a Volunteer and Event Coordinator for AI Village since 2024, helping plan content for RSA, DEF CON, and local BSides events, and have organized BSides Charm City since 2016, currently leading its Villages Committee. They hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, where they were a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar.

Henry Hu is a cybersecurity leader and currently serves as Chapter Chair of the OWASP Taiwan Chapter. He also represents Taiwan in the Cloud Security Alliance and The Honeynet Project, serves on the Board of the Taiwan Digital Security Alliance, and is Deputy Secretary-General of the Cybersecurity Alliance, helping connect Taiwan’s cybersecurity ecosystem with the international community.

With extensive experience in enterprise cybersecurity, Henry specializes in incident response, digital forensics, security governance, compliance, and large-scale security deployments. He holds numerous internationally recognized certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CEH, CHFI, CCSK, and ISO/IEC 27001 & 42001 Lead Auditor/Consultant.

A frequent instructor and international conference speaker, Henry is also the founder of Auriga Security, where he leads a team delivering modern cybersecurity solutions, including endpoint, cloud, and managed security services, to help organizations strengthen their cyber resilience.