{"id":4541,"date":"2026-04-09T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:55:12","slug":"pixm-vulnerability-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/2026\/04\/pixm-vulnerability-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"PI-XM Vulnerability Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color: #333;line-height: 1.6;max-width: 800px;margin: 0 auto;padding: 10px 0\">\n\n    <table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;margin-bottom: 30px;border: none\">\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;width: 160px;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Vision<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #444;vertical-align: top\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">Enable safer multimodal AI by systematically measuring when and how image embedded prompts (and other steganographic payloads) cause downstream multimodal models to produce harmful or disallowed content \u2014 and by producing clear mitigations and reproducible tests that model builders, researchers, and instructors can run locally.<\/p><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Mission<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #444;vertical-align: top\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">Build a reproducible report that:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0;padding-left: 20px;list-style-type: disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">uses Hugging Face models to synthesize images containing encoded\/embedded malicious prompts,<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">feeds those images into alternate multimodal models to see whether the malicious instruction is executed,<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">automates scoring and triage with LLM a judge and evaluation tools (JailBreak Bench),<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">produces well documented code, experiments, trials, and an instructor friendly demo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\">Runs and experiments will be executed on the university GPU server cec.cap.gpu1.csi.miamioh.edu under approved access and with explicit permission from the university.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;width: 160px;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Team Members<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #111;vertical-align: top\">Quinn Connolly, Troy Dold, Joseph Fazioli, Cameron Paul, Andrew Roberts<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        \n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Client<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #111;vertical-align: top\">Dr. Samer Khamaiseh<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Site<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #999\">N\/A<\/span><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n\n    <nav style=\"font-size: 14px;margin-top: 40px;border-top: 1px solid #eee;padding-top: 20px\">\n        <a href=\"spring-2026-project-list\" style=\"color: #005a8d;text-decoration: none;font-weight: 500\">&laquo; 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