Fredrik Heiding is a research fellow in computer science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He researches how to mitigate AI-enabled cyberattacks via technical innovations, organizational strategies, and national security policies. Fredrik works with the World Economic Forum's Cybercrime Center to improve global and domestic cybersecurity standards of AI-based cyber defense. He is a teaching fellow for the Generative AI for Business Leaders course at the Harvard Business School and leads the cybersecurity division of the Harvard AI Safety Student Team (HAISST). His technical research serves as a benchmark for evaluating the offensive capabilities of frontier AI models. In early 2022, Fredrik got media attention for hacking the King of Sweden and the Swedish European Commissioner. His previous study on AI-enabled spear phishing attacks was presented at Black Hat 2023, and he co-hosted a disinformation village at Defcon 2023. You can follow Fredrik on X @fredheiding
