Cristian Canton Ferrer

Seattle, United States

Cristian is a Research Scientist Manager on the AI Integrity Team at Facebook AI Applied Research. His research interests lie in the field of computer vision and adversarial machine learning. Cristian currently supports the AI Red Team, which focuses on understanding weaknesses and vulnerabilities derived from the use (or misuse) of AI, related to misinformation and election interference. Previously at Facebook, he managed teams related to the detection of the objectionable and harmful content domain. Prior to joining Facebook, Cristian worked at Microsoft Research and Vicon. He received an M.S. from EPFL in Switzerland and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona.