Meet the Team
Zyon Harris
Zyon Harris is a Junior at Old Dominion University majoring in Cybersecurity and Minoring in Risk Management & Insurance. She is a transfer student from Germanna Community College, where she has an associate's degree in Arts & Sciences. She became interested in cybersecurity because of her love for technology. She is also a candidate in the Summer Games Internship program at Booz Allen Hamilton. In her free time, she loves to draw and play video games.
Kelly Morgan
Cybersecurity senior at ODU and aspiring Software Developer. She has a Degree in Graphic Design from Tidewater Community College and decided to combine her love of art, tech, and forensics work into one major by transfering into ODU's Cybersecurity program. She is also completing another intersnship with ODU through the Future Information Professionals and COVA CCI Undergraduate Research Program.
Dominik Soós
Dominik is a senior undergraduate at ODU majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Math. He has been working as a research assistant for LAMP-SYS: Lab for Applied Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Systems supervised by Dr. Jian Wu. He played football for ODU and he likes to be surrounded by nature in his free time. He was also born and raised in Budapest, Hungary.
Josie Massenet
Josie Massenet is a sophomore at William & Mary studying International Relations and Economics. She is interested in cybersecurity because of its increasing prevalence in the realm of modern warfare. At William & Mary, she is a 2022 Freeman Fellow, Vice President of the Economics Club, and the Social Chair of Melodia Eastern European Instrument and Vocal Ensemble.
Jacklyn Gollayan
Jacklyn is a senior undegraduate at the College of William and Mary double majoring in Computer Science and Accounting. She became interested in cybersecurity after taking a couple elective classes related to network and cybersecurity. At William and Mary, she is the president of Colleges Against Cancer and part of the Filipino American Student Association. In her free time, she likes to play the guitar and listen to music.
Our Mission
We are a diverse multidisciplinary team focused on public internet safety. Our experiences, skillsets, and knowledge inside and outside the classroom has empowered us to draw upon a wealth of information to tackle real world issues in cybersecurity. Having a diversified background in accounting, international relations, cybersecurity, machine learning, coding, art, and networking our team honed in on the problem with public Wi-Fi safety.
We used a mixed design thinking process to empathize with end users and businesses alike to create a human centered design. As predominantly tech savvy and multidisciplinary individuals, our team was at a unique vantage point having used public Wi-Fi at some point or knowing someone who has, and the potential consequences those actions entail. We were not only able to describe the nature of the problem but we could also empathize. Our approach to creating a human centered design involved field research including people from all backgrounds and ages, and compiling that information to narrow our focus and tackle the problem head on through readily available modalities.
Free public Wi-Fi presents a unique challenge to end users and businesses. How safe is it? Is this the official business's Wi-Fi? Who else might eavesdropping on end users? What user information is exposed when using Wi-Fi? Is there a way to make public Wi-Fi safer that's also easy for end users to implement? These are just some of the questions we sought to address when creating PopLock. Since, the humble inception of PopLock our team has been collaboratively focused on addressing public Wi-Fi safety and ensuring a safer user experience for all.