Umar Faruk Abdullahi

Excited to share that our paper "Beyond Suffixes: Token Position in GCG Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models" has been accepted at the ICLR ICBINB 2026 Workshop!

Happy to share that I've graduated from the EDISS Master's program. My thesis on Adaptive Bathymetric Planning can be found here.

Excited to share that I've received the Google Cloud Certified Cloud Engineer certification!

Grateful to be accepted for the 2025 ETH Robotics Summer School in Geneva, Switzerland.

Shared my experience from the first year of the EDISS program in an interview with the program's YouTube channel.

Selected as one of ten engineers for the Pi School of AI Fellowship at Pi School in Rome, Italy.

Started the second year of my masters at The University of Balearic Islands, Spain majoring in Computer Vision and Robotics.

Elated to receive a fully funded acceptance to The Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School in Milan, Italy.

Thrilled and grateful to be accepted to The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) 2024 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Grateful to have presented our ongoing project on Parkinson's Detection & Biomarker Discovery at the EDISS 2024 Winter School at Mälardalens University, Västerås, Sweden.

Delighted to be accepted to attend the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School 2024 in-person at the University of Oxford, England.

Won the grand prize at the Nokia Challenge Hackathon for "Network Bandwidth Optimization using dynamic NetworkAsCode scripts"

Grateful and excited to begin my masters studies in AI & ML @EDISS on a fully funded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship in Finland and Spain.

Delivered a hands-on workshop on "Digital Skills for the 21st Century" to recent university graduates at Abuja, Nigeria. Interview Excerpt