Muhammad Huzaifa

I am a doctoral researcher at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security , where I work closely with Thorsten Eisenhofer and Lea Schönherr . I am passionate about adversarial machine learning, with the goal of developing AI systems that extend human intelligence in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. My current research focuses on the safety and security of generative AI.

Prior to my current role, I completed my Master’s degree at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) under the supervision of Prof. Fahad Khan and Prof. Salman Khan . During this time, my research spanned multimodal representation learning, the robustness of vision models, and the adaptation of vision-language models to low-data settings, including few-shot and zero-shot scenarios. Before that, I earned my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from NUST, Islamabad. Along the way, I also worked as a researcher at the Tübingen AI Center and MBZUAI .

I am always open to collaborations and discussions on research, security, privacy, or related topics. Feel free to email me.

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News

[2026-05] Started my PhD at CISPA.
[2026-04] One paper accepted at the GRAIL-V Workshop, CVPR 2026.
[2026-02] One paper accepted to the CVPR 2026 main track.
[2025-11] Started a Research Assistant position at CISPA under Prof. Thorsten Eisenhofer.
[2025-07] Started a Research Assistant position at the Tübingen AI Center under Prof. Hilde Kuehne.
[2025-07] TTA accepted at WACV 2025.
[2025-06] ObjectCompose received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at ACCV 2024.
[2025-06] ObjectCompose accepted at ACCV 2024.
[2025-02] Defensive Diffusion accepted at MIUA 2023.
[2025-02] Awarded a fully funded Master’s scholarship at MBZUAI.

Selected Publications

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Temporally Compressed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Scenes
Saqib Javed*, Ahmad Jarrar Khan*, Corentin Dumery, Chen Zhao, Mathieu Salzmann
BMVC, 2025
project page / arXiv / code

TC3DGS compresses dynamic 3D Gaussian representations using pruning, mixed-precision quantization, and trajectory interpolation, enabling efficient real-time applications.

Self-Ensembling Gaussian Splatting for Few-Shot Novel View Synthesis
Chen Zhao, Saqib Javed, Xuan Wang, Tong Zhang, Mathieu Salzmann
ICCV, 2025 (Oral, 0.6% acceptance rate)
project page / arXiv / code

SE-GS enhances novel view synthesis by reducing overfitting through uncertainty-aware perturbations and temporal regularization, outperforming existing methods.

Miscellanea

Academic Service

Reviewer, CVPR 2025, 2026
Reviewer, ECCV 2024, 2026
Reviewer, NeurIPS 2026
Reviewer, ICCV 2025

Teaching Assistant

Introduction to machine learning CS-233, Fall 2022, Spring 2023,2024,2025.
Probability and Statistics MATH-232, Fall 2023.
Responsible Software CS-290, Fall 2024