NSF REU@NMT CSE 2021

REU 2021 Team

Students

• Konrad  Benally (San Juan College, NM)

• Jesse He (Ohio State University, OH)

• Mavis Murdock (Mount Holyoke College, MA)

• Tyler Nichols (Texas A&M University, TX)

• Hannah Rogers (Mount Holyoke College, MA)

• Lissett Soto (California State University, East Bay, CA)

• Stephen Szwiec (Minot State University, ND)

• Jack Zemlanicky (Quinnipiac University, CT)

Faculty Mentors

• Dr. Jun Zheng (CSE)

• Dr. Dongwan Shin (CSE)

• Dr. Subhasish Mazumdar (CSE)

• Dr. Ramyaa (CSE)

• Dr. Haoying Wang (BTM)

Graduate Assistant

• Zhirui Luo

Research projects

• PDF malware detection with image visualization and transfer learning Poster Presentation 

• Improving user security behavior by using incentive mechanisms Poster Presentation

• Using polygonal data clusters to investigate LIME Poster Presentation

• Exploring machine learning techniques for botnet detection Poster Presentation

• Determining cybersecurity risk to U.S. crop precision agriculture Poster Presentation

Publications

(*: REU student)

Conference

• J. He*, S. Mazumdar, Using polygonal data clusters to investigate LIME, in Proceedings of International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2021), Oct. 2021, Virtual Conference, pp. 127-132.  

• T. Nichols*, J. Zemlanicky*, Z. Luo, Q. Li, J. Zheng, Image-based PDF malware detection using pre-trained deep neural networks, in Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS 2024), Apr. 29 & 30, 2024, San Antonio, TX, pp. 1–5.