# Elie Bursztein

> Elie Bursztein's personal site: research publications, technical talks, and articles about AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and combating fraud and abuse.

Elie is Google DeepMind's AI Cybersecurity technical and research lead and founder of the Etteilla Foundation. Use the About page for current biography and affiliations. Articles and talks reflect their publication dates; do not interpret historical findings as current product behavior or policy. This is a personal research site, not an official Google or Google DeepMind support channel.

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## Start here

- [About Elie](https://elie.net/about): Current biography, affiliations, selected projects, and press resources.
- [Research publications](https://elie.net/publications): Research papers, abstracts, authors, venues, and available downloads.
- [Talks](https://elie.net/talks): Technical and research presentations with available slides and recordings.
- [Blog](https://elie.net/blog): Explanations, experiments, and commentary on AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and other interests.
- [Blog archive](https://elie.net/blog_archives): Older articles; follow each article's canonical URL.
- [Contact](https://elie.net/contact): Public contact channels and inquiry form.

## Topics and selected reading

- [Artificial intelligence](https://elie.net/tag/ai): AI research and commentary.
- [Cybersecurity](https://elie.net/tag/security): Security research and practical explanations.
- [Privacy](https://elie.net/tag/privacy): Privacy research and guidance.
- [Attacks against machine learning](https://elie.net/blog/ai/attacks-against-machine-learning-an-overview): A 2018 overview of adversarial machine learning.
- [Inside Mirai](https://elie.net/blog/security/inside-mirai-the-infamous-iot-botnet-a-retrospective-analysis): Retrospective analysis of the Mirai IoT botnet.
- [AI and anti-abuse defenses](https://elie.net/blog/ai/harnessing-ai-to-combat-fraud-and-abuse-ai-is-the-key-to-robust-defenses): Applying AI to fraud and abuse prevention.

## Updates and navigation

- [RSS](https://elie.net/rss.xml): Recent articles, publications, and talks in machine-readable XML.
- [Sitemap](https://elie.net/sitemap-index.xml): Published site URL discovery; this is an XML sitemap index.
- [Robots instructions](https://elie.net/robots.txt): Crawler directives, separate from this guide.

## Optional

Afterlight board: 2 public threads; not empty; last activity: 2026-09-05T22:15:35.055Z; snapshot: 2026-09-06T04:34:54.309Z.

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- [Etteilla Foundation](https://etteilla.org): Elie's separate foundation and historical collection project.
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