NSF Cybersecurity REU@NMT 2022

REU 2022 Team

Students

• Youssef Aithmad (Macalester College, MN)

• Raul Corrales (New Mexico State University, NM)

• Chloe Duquette (Heidelberg University, OH)

• Joseph Edwards (Colorado Mesa University, CO)

• Darrius Gallegos (Adams State University, CO)

• Christian Garcia (San Juan College, NM)

• Eddy Guerra (University of Houston Downtown, TX)

• Justyn Rippie (Eastern New Mexico University, NM)

• Jacob Rydecki (New Mexico State University, NM)

• Zachary Schroeck (Montana Technological University, MT)

Faculty Mentors

• Dr. Jun Zheng (CSE)

• Dr. Subhasish Mazumdar (CSE)

• Dr. Ramyaa (CSE)

• Dr. Jizhou Tong (CSE)

• Dr. Haoying Wang (BTM)

• Dr. Sihua Shao (EE)

Graduate Assistant

• Ruobin Qi

Research projects

• Electricity theft detection in smart grids Poster Presentation 

• Extracting semantics from CWE descriptions Poster Presentation

• Useful feature selection methods for threat report text analysis Poster Presentation

• Malicious browser extension detection Poster Presentation

• Cybersecurity risks in precision agriculture: current research and modeling Poster Presentation

• Securing in-door wireless networks using modulating retro-reflector (MRR) tags Poster Presentation

Publications

(*: REU student)

Journal

• M. Salas, S. Shao, A. Salustri, Z. Schroeck*, J. Zheng, Securing smart grid enabled home area networks with retro-reflective visible light communication, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1–12, 2023, Art. no. 1245.

Conference

• J. Rydecki*, J. Tong, J. Zheng, Detecting malicious browser extensions by combining machine learning and feature engineering, In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2023), April 24–26, 2023, Virtual Conference, pp. 105-113.