
Hi, I'm Mansi Phute
CS PhD at Georgia Tech
My research is in the field of Trustworthy, Responsible, and Secure AI.
My PhD thesis aims to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems and develop practical, scalable defenses against them, with the goal of securing large-scale AI models and increasing trust in the deployed systems.
My work has produced two patents and two industry-deployed defenses along with papers at multiple top tier AI conferences.
My work includes VISOR and VISOR++ which create a universal, transferable steering image that can steer architecturally diverse models without requiring access to their internal model parameters at runtime.
I have collaborated with scientists at
IBM,
HiddenLayer,
Intel Labs, and
Nanyang Technological University
News
- 🎉 Oct 2026 I gave an invited talk at IBM, San Jose CA: "Holistic Safety of Multimodal Multi-Agent Systems".
- 🎉 Sep 2026 I was featured in Georgia Tech College of Computing news: Internship Highlights.
- 🎉 Aug 2026 I completed my Research Internship at IBM, San Jose, CA.
- 🎉 Jun 2026 I presented UNDREAM at PAKDD 2026.
- 🎉 Apr 2026 My patent US12608861B1 was published.
Read more
- 🎉 Apr 2026 My patent US12608861B1 was published.
- 🎉 Apr 2026 I passed my PhD qualifying exams
Featured Publications
Transferrable Visual Input based Steering for Output Redirection in Large Vision Language Models
ECCV 2026,
2026
A Unified Evaluation System for Configurable Attacks in Differentiable Environments
arXiv,
2026
Bridging Differentiable Rendering and Photorealistic Simulation for End-to-end Adversarial Attacks
Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge and Data Discovery,
2026
Visual Input based Steering for Output Redirection in Large Vision Language Models
AAAI AIR-FM Workshop,
2026