Early Closure 09/20/2022: The Pride Center
Due to last week's COVID exposures impacting our staffing ability, we will need to close The Pride Center at 4:30pm tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20th and will reopen at Noon, Wednesday, September 21st. If you are seeking other spaces on campus to pray, meditate or reflect, Room 367 in the Library and ITE 234 will remain available for student use. Additionally, The Commons is open until 12:00 midnight. We appreciate your understanding and will keep you informed if there are any additional closures of spaces.
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Interweave Cognitive Radio for 4G Long Term Evolution and 5G
PhD Defense: Brian Stevens, Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Interweave Cognitive Radio for 4G Long Term Evolution and 5G New Radio Self-Reliant Networks
Brian Stevens, Computer Engineering
1-3 pm ET Tuesday, 20 September 2022, Zoom
Committee: Drs. Mohamed Younis (Chair), Tulay Adali, Sunita Bhatia
(JHUAPL), Seung-Jun Kim, Dmitri Perkins, Ting Zhu
Existing cellular networks have untapped radio frequency resources, also known as white space, available for cognitive radio applications. A secondary network can opportunistically interweave communication within the white space of an existing cellular signal by leveraging cognitive radio. This thesis presents a novel methodology for forming a cognitive interwoven self-reliant secondary network with no additional physical infrastructure, collaboration from the existing primary network, and software or hardware changes in the primary network. The methodology is tested first with 4G and later with 5G cellular technological standards. For the physical layer, this thesis optimizes synchronization as the initial step in aligning to a cellular signal in time, frequency, and sector identity. We improve synchronization through sensitivity, execution time, and applies a threshold to form a "cell detector" instead of the traditional "cell search," which only considers the most detectable signal.
After synchronization, resource detectors monitor the available spectral resources of the entire cellular infrastructure. Modern cellular networks have grown in complexity and become an ecosystem that includes the host technologies, such as 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G New Radio (NR), along with subsystems such as narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT), category M1 (Cat-M1/LTE-M), observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA), and support for 4G/5G coexistence using dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). Such an increased complexity has driven the need for network monitoring to enable load tracking, congestion control, spectral efficiency analysis, intrusion detection, and cognitive radio communications.
This thesis develops resource monitoring that can passively monitor the entire cellular ecosystem, including reservations configured with high-layer messages that are only accessible to in-network, active, and sometimes user-specific equipment. Resource monitoring provides white-space reservations for cognitive communications. We define interference control to prevent interference with the primary network through physical layer access schemes and power control cluster protocols to access resources safely. With the added complexity of 5G as a host technology, our research leverages geospatial beamforming of known signals as spatially dependent white space. In this case, the known synchronization signal burst must be detected with a "beam detector" instead of a "beam search" to properly use beam resources that are not close to cognitive radio nodes. The thesis applies the self-reliant methodology, which defines opportunistic access and power control protocols that limit interference between cellular networks in both the time and frequency domains with additional support in the geospatial domain for 5G NR. Our research determines that an adapted version of Slotted ALOHA for medium access control (MAC) with a no-back-off contention fits the self-reliant approach of our work and timing constraints found in 4G LTE and 5G NR networks.
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Undergraduate Internship: ORISE/Food and Drug Administration
Jenny Thomas, ‘23 chemical engineering
Jenny Thomas, '23 chemical engineering - traditional track, chemistry minor
Internship Location:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Virtual Internship
What is the focus of your research/internship?
For my internship, which was virtual, I was a fellow through the
ORISE program which offers a wide variety of fellowships throughout the country. I worked with a group within the FDA to create a database of pharmaceutical data using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which I did not know before my internship!
What advice do you have for students who are interested in getting involved in research or an internship?
It can be intimidating to start applying, but believe in yourself and put yourself out there! Teachers in the department are always sending emails about job opportunities that you should look into!
The UMBC Career Center was also helpful in reviewing my resume before I used it in applications.
Are you a member of any clubs/campus organizations?
Tau Beta Pi, Undergraduate Research in
Dr. Summers' Lab (September 2020 - present)
What are your goals after graduation?
Work in industry, maybe with pharmaceutical production
Learn more about Jenny Thomas:
linkedin.com/in/jenny-thomas-705925165
Photo Credit: Jenny Thomas
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Undergraduate Summer Internship : ExxonMobil
Catherine Wraback, '23 chemical engineering
Catherine Wraback, '23 chemical engineering - traditional track
Internship Location:
ExxonMobil, Houston, TX
What is the focus of your research/internship?
This summer, I worked in the Gas-Phase Polyethylene Process Technology group at ExxonMobil in Houston, TX. My main project focus was on running the pilot plant units to test next generation catalyst systems to form new grades of polyethylene with different material properties. I compared design, operation, and maintenance of key reactor vent line systems across gas-phase polyethylene sites globally to investigate plugging and fouling. I used the gathered information to redesign vent line systems and developed "Tier 2 Best Practice" guidance for contracted design firms for future projects.
What advice do you have for students who are interested in getting involved in research or an internship?
Network! Talk to people about where they have worked and what they have done. Talk about what you are interested in doing. Even if it is just students in the department who are a year or two older than you, they still have those connections!
Are you a member of any clubs/campus organizations?
AIChE (President), Tau Beta Pi, SWE, Women's Ultimate Frisbee
What are your goals after graduation?
Pursue a career in process design with a core focus on building sustainable processes!
Learn more about Catherine Wraback:
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CBEE students & faculty highlighted: USM LSAMP annual report
2020 - 2021 Year in Review
The UMBC LSAMP 2020-2021 Annual Report highlights involvement in the UMBC LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION (LSAMP) program. LSAMP participants have access to individualized advising, campus workshops, funded research experiences, and national and international conferences to strengthen their STEM identity and promote entry into top graduate programs.
We want to specifically celebreate the achievements of those persuing their bachelors of science in chemical engineering and the departmental faculty supporting their efforts.
"...sometimes you feel as if you're not making much progress but then you come to understand that your data can be helpful to others. My PI has taught me that my role in the research lab is valuable and that routine observations can lead to progress in an experiment. "
- Excerpt From A Chemical Engineering Major '23 Research Reflection -
FALL 2020 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (Pg 32 )
Name and Class | Major | Topic | Faculty Mentor | University
Sahaadat Hammed-Owens ‘23 | Chemical Engineering | Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering | Dr. Jennie Leach | UMBC
SUMMER 2021 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (pg 34)
Name and Class | Major | Topic | Faculty Mentor | University
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Sahaadat Hammed-Owens ‘23 | Chemical Engineering | Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering | Dr. Jennie Leach | UMBC
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Chiad Onyeje '24 | Chemical Engineering | Nanoparticles | Dr. Erin Lavik | UMBC
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Grace Tugado '23 | Chemical Engineering | Biomaterials & Biochemistry | Dr. Jennie B. Leach | UMBC
CLASS OF 2021 GRADUATING FELLOWS AND POST-GRADUATION PLANS (pg 40)
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Hana El-Erian Flores, Chemical Engineering, PhD, MIT
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Howard Nicholson III, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Columbia
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Intern of the Week: Dhruvi Patel
Check out Dhruvi's internship with Erickson Senior Living
Name: Dhruvi Patel (She/her/hers)
Internship, Co-op, or Research Site: Co-op
Position Title: IT Corporate Intern (DBA/BA)
Major or Program: B.S. Information Systems
Current Class Level: Senior
Work Term: Summer 2022 and Fall 2022
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.
My day to day responsibilities includes investigating goals and issues, analyzing information, evaluating solutions, documenting and identifying business issues.
Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
I got the internship at Erickson through UMBC Works. There were a total of three round of interviews including the initial phone call.
What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization?
Everyday a business analyst is faced with new challenges and new problems to solve, and this encourages me to learn more about the challenging work environment, and allows me to continuously develop problem solving and critical thinking skills.
How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
I have gained a good amount of knowledge from this internship. And I believe that I have implemented it correctly in generating reports and projects.
What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Try to meet new people and be open minded to learn new things everyday.
Please provide a short reflection or quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / working with the Career Center.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
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Talk: Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment and Reduction
Online, 12:00-1pm ET, Friday, 23 September 2022
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents
On A Risk Assessment and
Reduction Approach for
National Critical Infrastructure
Cyrus Jian Bonyadi
Security Systems Analyst and PhD Student
Sandia National Labs and UMBC
12:00-1pm ET, Friday, 23 Sept. 2022, via WebEx
Work by Jason Reinhardt, Merideth Secor, Lindsey Miles, Ron Lafond, Derek Koolman II, Lauren Wind, Ray Ludwig, Jeff Munns
The
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical infrastructure. CISA must assess risks that cover a broad range of scenarios over a complex set of interdependent critical infrastructure (CI) systems. While many threat and hazard impact models and data sets exist, there is no overarching analytic structure that organizes and integrates these disparate sources into a unified risk assessment. CISA is building capabilities that will address these challenges to support stakeholders across all levels of government and the private sector.
First, CISA has developed a
National Critical Functions (NCFs) data structure to organize and describe critical infrastructure. This data set provides a set of decompositions structured as directed graphs that break down each identified function into enabling sub-functions that detail the operation and interdependencies across disparate CI systems.
The functional description of NCFs serves as a complementary lens to the sector-based organization of CI and better facilitates systemic and cross-sector risk analysis.
Additionally, CISA has begun developing the Risk Architecture, a technology-enabled analytic tool that contains a set of standards, scenarios, visualizations, and workflows that leverage the NCF and other integrated CI data sets. This talk describes the need for an integrated approach to CI risk assessment, the NCF decomposition structure, the principles and concepts behind the Risk Architecture, and the approaches to functional interdependency analysis while also providing initial use examples.
Cyrus Jian Bonyadi is a PhD student working on developing a set of corollaries for consensus theory in distributed system security. Cyrus is a former member of the UMBC
Cyberdawgs cyberdefense team and maintains a relationship with UMBC as a full time researcher at Sandia National Labs.
Host: Alan T. Sherman,
sherman@umbc.edu.
Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681. The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm. All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming CDL meetings: Oct 7, Geoffrey Herman (Illinois), Validation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment (CCA); Oct 21, Peter Peterson (UMN Duluth), Misconceptions in cybersecurity; Nov 4, Josiah Dykstra (DoD), Myths in cybersecurity; Nov 18, Russ Fink (APL), ARMR: Autonomous resilience / machine recovery; Dec 2 Peter Peterson (UMN Duluth), Adversarial Thinking; SFS/CySP Research Study: January 2-6, 2023 (tentative).
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Registration open for the 2022 hackUMBC hackathon
Saturday and Sunday, 1-2 October 2022 in the ILSB building
Join hackUMBC for our 24-hour hackathon event where we challenge our ideas to come to life! Collaborate with other students and pick up some new skills in our workshop sessions!
With lots of fun activities, over $5,000 in prizes, and swag for all participants, you will be in for an exciting weekend.
There will be four tracks focused on different areas: data analysis and visualization, hardware systems, AI/machine learning, and general ideas that don't fit the other three.
For more information, see the
hackUMBC site.
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First GBM
Hey everyone! Our first GBM is Monday, September 19, from 12PM-1PM on Discord. Come out and learn more about ISSA!
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