Christos Xenakis delivered a keynote presentation at the 15th IEEE Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT 2025), held in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, 20 December 2025. The keynote, entitled “Securing the AI Lifecycle: Trust-by-Design Approaches to Adversarial Threats,” addressed the importance of embedding security and trust throughout the entire AI lifecycle — from data collection and model training to deployment and continuous monitoring. The presentation highlighted emerging adversarial threats and discussed design-oriented approaches to building more secure and trustworthy AI systems.
The talk was grounded in research conducted within the framework of the cPAID project, showcasing the project’s contribution to advancing dependable and secure AI technologies. The c
