Trustworthy AI Lab

Department of Computer Science and Engineering · University at Buffalo - SUNY

About Our Lab

The Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab (TRAIL) is part of the CSE department at University at Buffalo-SUNY. Our primary reserach goals are to strive towards building efficient deep learning architectures in domains like privacy-preserving machine learning, generative AI alongside building trustable deep learning systems.

Recent News

  • May 2026
    • Susim received the Patricia Eberlein Master's Thesis Award. Congrats Susim!
    • Arjun goes for a research internship to Adobe. Congrats Arjun!
  • Jan 2026
    • 1 paper accepted to ICLR 2026! Congrats Bharat!

Research Areas

01

Privacy-Preserving AI & Security

Developing secure machine learning models using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to protect data privacy in critical systems like biometrics and healthcare.

  • Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  • Secure Deep Learning
  • Efficient Deep Learning
02

Video Understanding & Generative AI

Designing hierarchical learning methods and diffusion models to prevent catastrophic forgetting and enhance video and action understanding.

  • Optimal Transport
  • Diffusion Models
  • Long Video Understanding
03

Explainability & Interpretability

Improving faithfulness in interpretability. Using interpretability techniques to improve robustness, and alignment, diagnose failure modes, and explore its uses in AI4Science.

  • Information Theory
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • Adversarial Robustness