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Funding for conference travel (iAIMS 2026/IFIP) and open-access publications (APCs) to globally distribute a completed, 8-paper technical research pipeline. The work provides usable Behaviour Reconstruction Models (BRMs) and Responsibility Attribution Frameworks (RAFs) which enable the mapping of log telemetry, adversarial runtime exploits, and the closing of the accountability gap in autonomous AI agent cyber incidents.
Our goal is to address the “attribution gap” in autonomous AI agent cyber incidents that exists before agentic deployments reach a scale that surpasses the pace of international safety governance. In the case of a security incident resulting in model drift, reward hacking or indirect prompt injection by an autonomous agent, the conventional forensic logs cannot distinguish between an intentional attack on the model and an anomaly in the model.
To address this, we have completed the research phase of a dual-layer technical solution: a Behaviour Reconstruction Model (BRM) to reconstruct the internal chain of thought of an agent post-incident and a socio-technical Responsibility Attribution Framework (RAF) to map the legal responsibility between developers, deployers and other stakeholders.
In the following 12 months, we will communicate this completed work globally following this academic roadmap:
Presenting our accepted paper on adversarial memory laundering at iAIMS 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.
Delivering a practical log inspection guide to thousands of active incident response examiners at the Magnet Virtual Summit.
Presenting our benchmark paper on state-graph checkpointing at the IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics in New Delhi.
Publishing 5 more papers currently under journal review (Discover Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence and Law) in Open Access formats, to maximise reach and visibility.
The requested funding pool ($6,800) is strictly designated for conference travel, event registration, and journal publication fees (APCs). The primary research phase is already complete, so no money will go toward basic R&D overhead.
The exact cost allocation is:
Conference Registration ($1,720): This includes a member registration fee ($800) + an all-inclusive registration/accommodation package ($920) for IFIP WG 11.9.
Professional Membership ($160): Annual IEEE and Computer Society membership. This saves the project $50 off the current iAIMS ticket and also provides member rates for future papers that are in the pipeline.
International Travel & Logistics ($1,280): International Travel & Logistics ($1,280): Includes return economy tickets to Spain ($1,100), a C-Type Schengen visa and required travel health insurance ($180).
Accommodation & Per Diem ($1,550): 5 nights in the required venue hotel ($1,100) and ground transport & meals in the conference window period ($450).
Journal Publication Pool ($2,090): Funded directly into open-access Article Processing Charges (APCs), and used for possible editorial compliance changes at Cureus ($400).
This project is a direct research collaboration between me, Ahmad Muhammad Tahir, and my advisor, Ms. Garima Joon. We are both affiliated with Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, and these eight research outputs serve as the foundation of my MSc dissertation.
Our team combines active laboratory practice with established forensic academic oversight:
My Background (Ahmad Muhammad Tahir): I am a postgraduate student pursuing an MSc in Digital and Cyber Forensics at the Department of Forensic Science at Vivekananda Global University. Alongside my postgraduate research, I serve as a Senior Technologist in the Department of Computer Science at Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, where I actively head the department's Embedded and Networking Laboratory.
Ms Garima Joon's Background: She is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Forensic Science at Vivekananda Global University. She is a veteran cybersecurity researcher specialising in cloud evidence acquisition and mobile forensics tooling, with a proven track record of multiple publications and patents in the field.
Our execution capability on this specific agentic security framework is demonstrated by our completed 12-month pipeline:
Accepted: Our paper on RAG runtime injections has been accepted for oral presentation at iAIMS 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.
Active Review: We have papers under active review at Discover Artificial Intelligence (awaiting editor decision), Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, Cureus Journal of Medical Science, and IFIP WG 11.9 / AISSG 2026.
Practitioner Outlets: We have submitted operational DFIR logs directly to the Magnet Forensics user summits.
Revision Phase: We are currently finalising revisions to our socio-technical Responsibility Attribution Framework (RAF) for Artificial Intelligence and Law.
By blending my practical network lab infrastructure with Ms Garima’s extensive expertise in cloud and mobile evidence acquisition, we are uniquely positioned to translate complex autonomous agent telemetry into scalable compliance standards.
Since the research phase is complete and the first major paper is already accepted, technical failure of the core models is not a risk. The primary risk of failure is a dissemination bottleneck caused by a lack of liquidity.
Cause of Failure: If there is not enough funding, then I will not be able to travel to either Barcelona or New Delhi to give the oral presentation, and therefore the accepted work must be cancelled. Also, if APC coverage is not provided, then journal acceptances will be required to fall into classical subscription-based paywalls.
Outcome of Failure: The research will stay confined within academia, away from the policymakers (e.g. the compliance boards for the EU AI Act) and industry incident response teams in the pressing need for open-source logging primitives to safely control deployed agent behaviours.
$0. This research has been entirely self-funded and completed independently without active grants, corporate sponsorships, or university institutional R&D pools. All data collection, conceptual modelling, and manuscript preparation have been carried out with personal infrastructure.