Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

9am-4pm, Friday May 5, 2023, ENGR Atrium & online

Open to faculty, researchers, students, and visitors. Talks will be broadcast online via WebEx.

Reception (9:00am-9:20am), with coffee, juice, water, breakfast bites

Opening Remarks (9:20am-9:30am), Mohamed Younis, CSEE Acting Chair

Session I (9:30am-10:40am)

Dr. Alan T. Sherman, “Psychometric Evaluation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment” (joint work with Geoffrey L. Herman, Shan Huang, Peter A. Peterson, Linda Oliva, Enis Golaszewski)

Dr. Ergun Simsek, “Designing Energy Efficient Neural Networks According to Device Operation Principles”

Dr. Josiah Dykstra, Cyber Defense Lab, “Stress and Hacking: Understanding Cognitive Stress in Tactical Cyber Operations” (invited talk by UMBC CS PhD alumnus)

Break (10:40am–11:00am)

Student Poster Session (11:00am–12:00pm) – faculty vote for three best posters using Range Voting

Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm) vegetable red curry (vegetarian), garden salad, chicken marsala, beef fajitas, rice pilaf, bread

Session II (1:00pm–2:10pm)

Sophia Hamer, “A Man-in-the-Middle attack on the FIDO UAF Registration Protocol,” Award for best research by a BS student (joint work with Jonathan Fuchs, Danning Liu)

Maksim E. Eren, “One-Shot Federated Group Collaborative Filtering,” Award for best research by a MS student (joint work with Manish Bhattarai, Nicholas Solovyev, Luke E. Richards, Roberto Yus, Charles Nicholas, Boian S. Alexandrov)

Sai Vallurupalli, “POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events,”  Award for best research by a Ph.D. student (joint work with Sayontan Ghosh, Katrin Erk, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Francis Ferraro)

Break (2:10pm–2:30pm)

Session III (2:30pm–3:40pm)

Dr. Roberto Yus, “SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations” (joint work with A. Chio, D. Jiang, P. Gupta, G. Bouloukakis, S. Mehrotra, N. Venkatasubramanian)

Dr. Ram Rustagi, “Cyber Range Overview”

Dr. Curtis Menyuk, “Centaur for Time and Frequency Research”

Student Poster Awards and Reception (3:40-4:00pm), refreshments