Secure and Intelligent Distributed Computing (SIDC) Lab

Recent News

• [07/2025] Invited to serve as the reviewer for ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TC'2026)

• [06/2025] Invited to serve as the student travel grant chair for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026)

• [06/2025] Congratulations to our lab students, Mr. Gabriel Taveira and Mr. Zijian Zhang, for presenting research work on the ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 poster session. 

• [05/2025] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF OAC Proposal Review Panel.

• [04/2025] Invited to participate in the NSF LEVEL UP AI Roundtable Discussion on AI Education hosted by the Computing Research Association.

• [04/2025] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF CISE Proposal Review Panel.

• [01/2025] Congratulations to our lab students, Mr. Liang Wu (NMDSI Student Scholar Award recipient in 2025 Spring) and Mr. Jagger Vicente and Mr. Jack Harmer (UWM SURF Award recipient in 2025 Spring)! Thanks, NMDSI and UWM OUR!

• [11/2024] SIDC lab has been invited to attend MIT Lincoln Lab's sixth annual Recent Advances in AI for National Security (RAAINS) Workshop. We sent the lab Ph.D. student Ms. Isra Elsharef to represent our team at this event.

• [10/2024] Hosted a workshop session for 31 high school students focused on hands-on cybersecurity practice using the cybersecurity playground developed by our lab — Hack, Learn, Secure! [Picture]

• [10/2024] Invited to serve as the student travel grant chair for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025).

• [10/2024] Congratulations to our lab Ph.D. student Ms. Isra Elsharef, UWM Webb Fellowship recipient, 2024-25 Fall/Spring!

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Selected Honors & Awards

• NSF NeTS Early Career Workshop, Alexandria, VA, 2025

• "The Teacher Excellence Award" at UWM, 2024 Spring

• NSF CAREER Workshop Mock Panel, Virtual, 2024

• NSF SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2024

• NSF Directions for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) EDU workshop, Dallas, TX, 2023

• CRA (Computing Research Association) Early & Mid Career Mentoring Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2023

• UW System Alliance for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advancement in STEM workshop, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 2023

• Faculty mentor at Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) STEM-Inspire Program, 2023 - 2025

• NSF Broaden Engineering Teaching with Theory-based Educational Resources (BETTER) workshop, Milwaukee, WI, 2023

Services

Grant Panelist

• NSF Proposal Review Panels, 2025

• NSF Proposal Review Panels, 2024

Technical Program Committee

• CCS 2024 workshop on Adaptive and Autonomous Cyber Defense (AACD 2024)

• NDSS 2024 workshop on AI System with Confidential Computing (AISCC 2024)

  • • CCS 2023 workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2023) 

Organizing Committee

• Student Travel Grant Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025, INFOCOM 2026)

• Social Media Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2024)

    Reviewer

• Journal: 

  • • • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE)

• Conference: 

  • • • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'22), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TC'19, SIGCSE TC'26), ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'17, ITiCSE'18)

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