Dr. Amanda Minnich is a Senior Red Team TL at Microsoft on the Microsoft AI Red Team, where she red teams Microsoft's foundational models and Copilots for safety and security vulnerabilities. Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Minnich worked at Twitter, focusing on identifying international election interference and other types of abuse and spam campaigns using graph clustering algorithms. She also previously worked at Sandia National Laboratories and Mandiant, where she applied machine learning research techniques to malware classification and malware family identification. Dr. Minnich is heavily involved with tech outreach efforts, especially for women in tech. She received her MS and PhD in Computer Science with Distinction from the University of New Mexico.
