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Mario Fritz is a faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, an honorary professor at Saarland University, and a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Until 2018, he led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Previously, he was a PostDoc at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and UC Berkeley after receiving his PhD from TU Darmstadt and studying computer science at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
He is currently coordinating and leading the EU funded network of excellence "ELSA - European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI", among other projects.
His research focuses on trustworthy artificial intelligence, especially at the intersection of information security and machine learning.

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Since 2019
Professor, Saarland University
Since 2018
Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
2011 - 2018
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
2008 - 2010
PostDoc International Computer Science Institute & UC Berkeley

Publications by Mario Fritz

Year 2026

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International Workshop on Designing and Measuring Security in Systems with AI (DeMeSSAI 2026) MATRA: Modeling the Attack Surface of Agentic AI Systems -- OpenClaw Case Study

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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Certified Circuits: Stability Guarantees for Mechanistic Circuits

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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Position: Trustworthy AI Suffers from Invariance Conflicts and Causality is The Solution

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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Position: Safety Must Precede the Deployment of Open-Ended AI Agents

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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer Reviews

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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer Reviews

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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ProxyPrompt: Securing System Prompts against Prompt Extraction Attacks

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International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Securing tomorrow (CyCon) Enhancing Cyber Attack Autonomy Through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)

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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW) Inspectable AI for Science: A Research Object Approach to Generative AI Governance

Article

Science Robotics How foundation models will revolutionize robot swarms