George Kesidis

Full Professor, CSE & EE, Pennsylvania State University

Joined

July 2019

Names

George Kesidis

Emails

****@psu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

CSE & EE, Pennsylvania State University (psu.edu)

2006 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jean Walrand

1990 – 1992

Expertise

Adversarial AI

2017 – 2021

Publications

Improving the Sensitivity of Backdoor Detectors via Class Subspace Orthogonalization
Guangmingmei Yang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs
Xiaohan Zou, Jian Kang, George Kesidis, Lu Lin
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Temporal-Distributed Backdoor Attack Against Video Based Action Recognition
Xi Li, Songhe Wang, Ruiquan Huang, Mahanth Gowda, George Kesidis
- AAAI-24
- Readers: Everyone
Maximum Margin Based Activation Clipping for Post-Training Overfitting Mitigation in DNN Classifiers
Hang Wang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis
- ICLR 2024 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Backdoor Mitigation by Correcting Activation Distribution Alteration
Xi Li, Zhen Xiang, David Miller, George Kesidis
- 17 Jan 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Backdoor Mitigation by Correcting Activation Distribution Alteration
Xi Li, Zhen Xiang, George Kesidis, Bo Li, David J. Miller
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Post-Training Detection of Backdoor Attacks for Two-Class and Multi-Attack Scenarios
Zhen Xiang, David Miller, George Kesidis
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors