{"id":16784,"date":"2023-05-19T09:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=16784"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:55","slug":"zinovi-rabinovich","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/zinovi-rabinovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinovi Rabinovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Multi-Agent Learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"specific-research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Specific Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modelling of manipulative interactions, inclusive of machine-human interactions<br>\nPerceptual control and emergent behaviour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current research projects focus largely on Behaviour Cultivation (a.k.a. Backdoor attacks, a.k.a. Environment Poisoning, a.k.a. Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment) against Reinforcement (Single, Multi-Agent, Distributed\/Federated) Learning. Naturally, we use deep learning methods, but also rely on game theory, information theory, and evolutionary\/genetic methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With core methodology available, we now look into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>scale (more agents, more complex interactions and domains)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>efficiency (data needed, attack timing)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stealth and targeting (impacting a specific portion of a multi-agent system, obfuscating attack information)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>applicability (attacking a greater variety of learning algorithms and frameworks, reducing knowledge of the targeted agent&#8217;s structures and motivations)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Rabinovich is currently a member of the School of Computer Science faculty at the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, Ottawa, where I have moved from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His prior experience also includes: the Research and Development Department of Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.; a Postdoctoral Researcher appointment at the Department of Computer Science at the Bar-Ilan University; and a Research Fellow position with the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences at the University of Southampton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ph.D. in Computer Science was conferred on me by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-group\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Group<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-lab-of-z.zinovi.net\/\">The Lab of Z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17565,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Zinovi","cu_people_last_name":"Rabinovich","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[12],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-16784","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-school-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ZinoviRabinovich@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4333","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/www.zinovi.net ","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23575,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16784\/revisions\/23575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=16784"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=16784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}