NSF Cybersecurity REU@NMT 2023

REU 2023 Team

Students

• Carmen Isabel Day (California State University, Channel Island, CA)

• Wynter Japp (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA)

• Kelly R Morgan  (Navajo Tech University, NM)

• Cynthia Marie Rivera Sánchez (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR)

• Adrian Delmar Swindle (Saint Louis University, MO)

• Caleb Frank (San Juan College, NM)

• Brodie Bachmayer (LeTourneau University, TX)

• Derrick McNealy (University of Southern Mississippi, MS)

• Stephen Pan (University of Arizona, AZ)

• Kayla Hope Weldon (Rowan University, NJ)

Faculty Mentors

• Dr. Jun Zheng (CSE)

• Dr. Subhasish Mazumdar (CSE)

• Dr. Ramyaa (CSE)

• Dr. Haoying Wang (BTM)

• Dr. Sihua Shao (EE)

Graduate Assistant

• Ruobin Qi

Research projects

• Bagged ensemble for semi-supervised electricity theft detection in AMI Poster Presentation 

• Location-based privacy using Hilbert curves Poster Presentation

• Language models and obfuscated code Poster Presentation

• Ensuring secure key exchange over bandwidth-limited visible light communication (VLC) channels Poster Presentation

• Simulating the impact of cyber attacks on the airline industry Poster Presentation

Publications

(*: REU student)

• R. Qi, W. Japp*, S. Pan*, J. Zheng, S. Shao, Enhancing the performance of semi-supervised electricity theft detection in smart grids with feature engineering and ensemble learning, in Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Kansas Power & Energy Conference (KPEC), Apr. 25 and 26, 2024, Manhattan, KS.

• A. Swindle*, D. McNealy*, G. Krishnan, R. Evaluation of large language models on code obfuscation (Student Abstract), in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, v.38, 2024.