2025 Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
Fall Workshop
October 7-8, 2025
Angelo State University
San Angelo, Texas
October 7-8, 2025
Angelo State University
San Angelo, Texas
We are excited to welcome you to the Fall Workshop on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, hosted by Angelo State University. This two-day event brings together researchers, faculty, and students from Texas Tech University (TTU), the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and Angelo State University (ASU) to share their latest advances in cybersecurity and AI.
Much of the work presented is supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in collaboration with the Army Research Labs (ARL), highlighting the vital role of research in strengthening national security and advancing cutting-edge technologies.
We look forward to engaging discussions, collaborative opportunities, and innovative ideas that will shape the future of cybersecurity and AI.
Dr. Stephen Bayne, TTU
Dr. Ranadip Pal, TTU
Dr. Anthony Rios, UTSA
Dr. Roya Choupani, ASU
Dr. Erdoğan Doğdu, ASU
Ms. Breanna Huff, ASU (local organization)
Presentation and Poster Abstract Submission: Sep 22, 2025 (Extended to Sep 27)
Workshop Registration: Sep 22, 2025 (Extended to Sep 27)
8:00-9:00 Registration Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Opening talks: Dr. Stephen Bayne (TTU), Dr. Scarlet Clouse (ASU), Dr. Roland Faller, (TTU), Dr. David Bixler (ASU)
10:00-11:00 Session 1
15 min Break
11:15-12:30 Panel: Dr. Bayne (moderator), Dr. Pal, Dr. Rios, Dr. Dogdu
12:30-1:45 Lunch and Posters
1:45-2:00 Moving to RSOC Tour
2:00-3:30 PM Tour: RSOC, SCIF, STEM Bus
3:30-4:30 PM Posters
6:00-8:00 Dinner at Angry Cactus (included in your registration)
8-8:30 Registration Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Talk: Mr. Russell Ezzell, RSOC Manager
9:00-10:00 Session 2
15 min Break
10:15-11:15 Session 3
11:15-12:30 Coffee - Posters
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Discussion and Reporting
Session 1
Bridging the Black Box: Explainable Anomaly Detection for Critical Infrastructure
John DeLeon, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani, Tatum Beaugh, Amiram Fields
Generative AI for Dataset Enrichment in Edge Case Camouflage Object Detection Tasks
Nathan Bartley, Ranadip Pal
RASTeR: Robust, Agentic, and Structured Temporal Reasoning
Dan Schumacher, Fatemeh Haji, Tara Grey, Niharika Bandlamudi, Nupoor Karnik, Gagana Uday Kumar, Cho-Yu Jason Chiang, Peyman Najafirad, Nishant Vishwamitra, Anthony Rios
Session 2
Intermittent File Encryption in Ransomware: Measurement, Modeling, and Detection
Ynes Ineza, Gerald Jackson, Prince Niyonkuru, Jaden Kevil, and Abdul Serwadda
Grammar-Guided Generation of Irreducible Shell Commands for Honeypot Simulation
Jarrod Ragsdale, Rajendra Boppana
Evaluation of Attacks and Mitigation in Federated Learning for Camouflage Detection Scenarios
Courtney Baker, Ranadip Pal
Session 3
Forensic Toolkit for AI Based Digital Evidence
Benjamin Cohen, Sundar Krishnan
I See You: Using RF Signals to See inside Manufacturing Processes
Oscar R. Hernandez, Bethanie Williams, Candan Martin, Clifton Mulkey, Gabriela Ciocarlie
Decentralized Blockchain-Enabled Controller for Security of Energy Resources
Mason Obregon, Argenis Bilbao
An Applied Vision Transformer on Robotic Motion Spectral Images
Oscar R. Hernandez
Beyond Single-Hop: Binary Link Prediction in Malware Knowledge Graphs with Path Complexity Analysis
Kibrom Bahlibi, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani, Bill Mitchell
Beyond the Voice: Inertial Sensing of Mouth Motion for High-Security Speech Verification
Ynes Ineza, Muhammad A. Ullah, Abdul Serwadda, and Aurore Munyaneza
Bridging the Black Box: Explainable Anomaly Detection for Critical Infrastructure
John DeLeon, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani, Tatum Beaugh, Amiram Fields
Decentralized Blockchain-Enabled Controller for Security of Energy Resources
Mason Obregon, Argenis Bilbao
Evaluation of Attacks and Mitigation in Federated Learning for Camouflage Detection Scenarios
Courtney Baker, Ranadip Pal
Fairness in Out-of-Domain and Out-of-Model Classification: A Novel Two-Step Approach Towards Ranking Datasets
Veronica Rammouz, Aaron Gonzalez, Carlos Cruzportillo, Adrian Tan, Raymond Bateman, Nicole Beebe, Anthony Rios
Forensic Toolkit for AI Based Digital Evidence
Benjamin Cohen, Sundar Krishnan
Generative AI for Dataset Enrichment in Edge Case Camouflage Object Detection Tasks
Nathan Bartley, Robert Erbacher, Ranadip Pal
Grammar-Guided Generation of Irreducible Shell Commands for Honeypot Simulation
Jarrod Ragsdale, Rajendra Boppana
I See You: Using RF Signals to See inside Manufacturing Processes
Oscar R. Hernandez, Bethanie Williams, Candan Martin, Clifton Mulkey, Gabriela Ciocarlie
Intermittent File Encryption in Ransomware: Measurement, Modeling, and Detection
Ynes Ineza, Gerald Jackson, Prince Niyonkuru, Jaden Kevil, and Abdul Serwadda
LLM-Driven Q&A Agent over UCKG via Graph-Enhanced Retrieval and Text2Cypher
Shin Park, Kibrom Bahlibi, Sonpaorong Muchhim, Bill Mitchell, Dr. Erdogan Dogdu, Dr. Roya Choupani
Mitigating File-encrypting Ransomware
Ynes Ineza, Abdul Serwadda
MRS-PFIDS: Federated Learning Driven Detection of Network Intrusions in Maritime Radar Systems
Md Alamgir Hossain, Delwar Hossain, Roya Choupani, Erdogan Dogdu
RASTeR: Robust, Agentic, and Structured Temporal Reasoning
Dan Schumacher, Fatemeh Haji, Tara Grey, Niharika Bandlamudi, Nupoor Karnik, Gagana Uday Kumar, Cho-Yu Jason Chiang, Peyman Najafirad, Nishant Vishwamitra, Anthony Rios
Role-Conditioned Refusals: Evaluating Access Control in Large Language Models
Dorde Klisura and Anthony Rios
Structuring Cyber Threat Reports: Entity Extraction and Graph Alignment for CTI
Bill Mitchell, Sawyer Cawthon, Aaron Alacar, Vitaly Andrejeus, Mahram Daneshi Bahreini, Jesse Sullins, Shane Waldrop, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani
Unified Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph 2.0
Bill Mitchell, Shin Park, Sonpaorong Muchhim, Dohyeong Kwon, Peyton Bubert, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani