Jonathan Gregory

Computer Science PhD Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
jgregory8 at wisc dot edu

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About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I am advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel in the Madison Security and Privacy Research Group. Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I received bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Mathematics from Central Michigan University.

My current research focuses on the security of multi-agent systems. My research interests also include:

• Trustworthy artificial intelligence
• Adversarial machine learning
• Cybersecurity

Updates

• October 2026: Our paper The Limits of Information-Flow Control Enforcement for Agentic Systems was accepted to AIDC 2026 as a Work-in-progress (WIP) paper.
• April 2026: Our paper Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives for Spatial and Channel Mixing was accepted to ICML 2026 as a poster presentation.
• April 2026: I was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) for 2026.

Selected Papers

• The Limits of Information-Flow Control Enforcement for Agentic Systems
  Jonathan Gregory, Kyle Domico, Kunyang Li, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Patrick McDaniel
  Inaugural Workshop on Agentic AI in Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations (AIDC'26), 2026
  
  Paper Conference
• MESA: Prioritizing Vulnerable Communication Channels for Securing Multi-Agent Systems
  Kunyang Li, Kyle Domico, Jonathan Gregory, Patrick McDaniel
  In submission, 2026
  
  Paper Preprint
• Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives for Spatial and Channel Mixing
  Jeffrey Wang, Jonathan Gregory, Grigorios Chrysos
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  
  Paper Conference

Selected Awards

• Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), U.S. National Science Foundation, 2026

• Academic Excellence Award, Central Michigan University Honors Program, 2025

• President's Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishments, Central Michigan University, 2025

• Richtmeyer-Foust Award, Central Michigan University Department of Mathematics, 2025

• Board of Trustess Award, Central Michigan University, 2025

• Centralis Gold Award, Central Michigan University Honors Program, 2020

Professional Activities

Professional Service

• University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF GRFP Q&A Panelist, 2027
• Personal, Relevant Background, and Future Goals Statement
• Graduate Research Plan

Workshop Reviewer

• (ICLR 2026) ICLR 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI in the Wild: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy, 2026
• (NeurIPS 2026) NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Foundations of Language Model Security, 2026
• (NeurIPS 2026) The Third Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond, 2026

External Reviewer

• Oakland University Research Committee Faculty Fellowship, 2025