About
Yisroel Mirsky is a tenured Assistant Professor and Zuckerman Faculty Scholar in the Institute of Software Systems and Security at Ben-Gurion University, where he leads the Offensive AI Research Lab at CBG. He received his Ph.D. from BGU in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow for two years in the at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the research labs of Prof. Wenke Lee.
His main research interests include AI safety, AI agent security, deepfakes and adversarial machine learning. Dr. Mirsky is an ERC-STG 2025 recipient and has published his work in some of the best security venues: Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, USENIX, CCS, NDSS, CSF, AI Security Forum, AISec, Code Blue, etc. His research has also been featured in many well-known media outlets: Wired, Ars Technica, Tech Crunch, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Popular Science, and Scientific American.
His work has earned numerous accolades over the years, including more than $10,000 in bug bounties for discovering AI security vulnerabilities. Some of his works include the exposure of vulnerabilities in the US 911 emergency services and exposing the threat of deepfakes in medical scans, both featured in The Washington Post.