Competitions

Secure Your AI competitions

As a follow-up of the project, we organize a series of challenges covering different AI security aspects (i.e., data leakage, data poisoning, model theft, trojan horse attack, overreliance, and misinformation) and data modalities (satellite telemetry, natural language, and computer vision).

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting (29.05.2025 - 29.08.2025)

Main task: To identify triggers hidden in AI models for time series forecasting

Space application area: Spacecraft telemetry monitoring

Covered risks from our Security Catalogue: Trojan horse attack, Data leakage, Data poisoning, Model theft

Competition link: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/trojan-horse-hunt-in-space

Prizes: 1000 USD prize pool, ESA merchandise, Guided ESOC tour

To be presented at: 4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning

Summary paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20108

Fake or Real: The Impostor Hunt in Texts (23.06.2025 - 23.09.2025)

Main task: To detect manipulated texts

Space application area: Intelligent assistants and chatbots

Covered risks from our Security Catalogue: Data poisoning, Overreliance

Competition link: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/fake-or-real-the-impostor-hunt

Prizes: 900 USD prize pool, ESA merchandise

To be presented at: 4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning

Space Debris Defence (04.2026 - 07.2026)

Main task: To fix a model for space debris detection

Space application area: Space debris monitoring, Space situational awareness

Covered risks from our Security Catalogue: Data poisoning, Trojan horse attack

Competition link: TBA

Prizes: TBA

To be launched at: 10th European Mission Operations Ground Segment Software & Architecture Workshop (ESAW 2026)

To be summarized at: EASi-EXPLIMED workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 conference