Lera Leonteva
Founder & CEO, Leo AI; AI security engineer
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New York, New York, United States
Joined January 2026
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Founder and product leader in video AI and adtech — Lera founded Leo AI to apply AI to video marketing and workflows, growing the company into a recognized U.K. adtech startup with reported seed funding and product-facing guides to scale video content production. scworld+2
Security practitioner with hands-on offensive and defensive experience — she is described as a former ethical hacker and OSCP-qualified practitioner who has led penetration testing and red-team engagements and held security engineering and threat-detection leadership roles. scworld+1
Academic and open-source contributor on adversarial machine learning — author of a 2025 paper evaluating adversarial attacks against deployed AI systems, and maintainer of an accompanying public repository demonstrating and benchmarking remote attacks. wiley+2
Community leader and speaker focused on security, AI, and engineering — she has been active for years speaking at conferences and running workshops (including engagements with Code First Girls and national conferences) and participates in industry events and panels. womentech+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Evaluating Adversarial Attacks Against Artificial Intelligence Systems in Application Deployments
April 1, 2025Research paper and associated preprints describing methods for evaluating adversarial attacks against deployed AI systems, providing a public repository of attacks and benchmarking results for remote models.
Preprint: Evaluating Adversarial Attacks against Artificial Intelligence Systems in Application Deployments
February 1, 2025Preprint version of the adversarial attacks evaluation work made available on preprint servers.
Hobbies
Active tech community speaking and mentoring (conference talks and workshops). youtube+1
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