2021 Awards

CCSCE 2021 Award Winners

Best Faculty Paper (2 this year)

Best Pedagogy Paper: Development of a Virtualized Security Operations Center

Robert de Cespedes III, George Dimitglou, Hood College

Best Research Paper: Checkpoint Variations for Deep Q-Learning in Reconnaissance Blind Chess

Kyle Blowitski, T.J. Highley, La Salle University

Best Faculty Poster

Survey of COVID Online Teaching Methodologies and How They Can Be Used in the Traditional Classroom

Jennifer Polack, University of Mary Washington

Best Student Paper

Prevalence of PII within Public Malware Sandbox Samples

Aaron Weathersby, Marymount University

Best Student Poster

Predicting Racial & Gender Microaggressions Using Support Vector Machines (SVMs)

Surakshya Aryal, Taiwo Oriowo, Mikel Ngueajio, Howard University

Programming Contest

First Place: Christopher Newport University: The Mongooses - William Reames, Jack Lyman, Charles Steelberg

Second Place: Christopher Newport University: CNU Pushpins - Blaine Morse, Matthew Wakhweya, Aiden Tersine

Third Place: DeSales University - Lucas Acosta-Morales, Austin Weaver, Luke Cossman