Fahad Shamshad

PhD Researcher · MBZUAI

FahadShamshad

Teaching images to defend themselves against generative models.

  • Computer Vision · Generative AI safety
  • Advised by Karthik Nandakumar and Salman Khan
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Research

Safeguarding visual identity in the age of generative models.

Privacy

Privacy-preserving vision

Shielding faces and personal images from unauthorized generative use.

Erasure

Concept erasure

Removing unsafe concepts from generative models, and making it stick.

Provenance

Reliable watermarking

Testing which invisible marks survive, and what quietly breaks them.

Robustness

Model safety

Defenses against malicious editing and unauthorized personalization.

Open to collaborations in generative AI safety and trustworthy vision — get in touch.

Selected news

Recent work and recognition.

2026

Two papers accepted at CVPR 2026.

Papers

FaceGuardian accepted at SaTML 2026.

Oral

Selected for the SaTML travel grant.

Grant

2025

STEREO accepted at CVPR 2025.

Highlight

Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2025.

Award

TrojanWave accepted at EMNLP 2025.

Oral

Face Anonymixer accepted at IJCB 2025.

Spotlight

Selected for the CVPR 2025 travel grant.

Grant

2024

Won the NeurIPS 2024 Invisible Watermark Removal Challenge — black-box and beige-box tracks.

1st place

Best Poster, MBZUAI Research Symposium.

Award

BaPLe and PromptSmooth accepted at MICCAI 2024.

Papers

Selected for the DALL·E Detection Classifier Access Program.

Access