CySER Summer Workshop 2025 Posters

Securing Image Metadata: Cyber Security Risk Mitigation in Digital Photography
Student: Abby Jones
Mentors: Yvette Hastings, Dr. Clemente Izurieta

Evaluating Cyber Threats and Mitigation Techniques for Smart Farming Technologies
Student: Jessica Stevens
Mentors: Yvette Hastings, Dr. Clemente Izurieta

Dashboard of Cyberattacks and their Historic Timeline
Students: Gideon Survoy, Keeler Sparks
Mentors: Yvette Hastings, Dr. Clemente Izurieta

Leveling Up Cyber Skills: Mapping Bandit Labs to the NICE Framework
Students: Allison Youngblood, Sam White
Mentors: Zachary Werle, Dr. James Crabb

From Attack to Defense: Backdoor Threats and MAE-Based Defenses in Vertical Federated Learning for IoT Applications
Students: Ryan Brombaugh, Mathias Kelley
Mentors: Ahmed Abdelnaby, Dr. Mohamed Elmahallawy

Defending LLMs against PII leakage through Proactive Privacy Amnesia
Students: Isaiah Foster, Isaac Teo
Mentors: Mohamed Shaaban, Dr. Mohamed Elmahallawy

The Effect of AI Tools on Static Analysis of Source Code for Authorship Attribution
Students: Collin Bale, Genevieve Kochel, Natalie Simkins
Mentors: Tashi Stirewalt, Dr. Assefaw Gebremedhin

Assessing the Transnational Effects of Surveillance on Media Freedom
Students: Aaron Aytes, Yessica Bello Luna, Lauren Caruso
Mentors: Kathie Brickner, Dr. Jennifer Henrichsen

Assimilate – A Takedown Resistant Botnet Simulation
Students: Zachary Adelson, Christopher Mendoza, Elang Sisson
Mentors: Fredy Fernandez, Sean Hodgson, Justin Van Der Sluys, Nathan Waltz

Evaluating Open Large Language Model Benchmark Platforms
Students: Shane Ganz, Darasimi Ogunbinu-Peters
Mentors: Mohammad Babar, Dr. Monowar Hasan

From Cloud to Crop: A Predictive Platform for Weather and Apple Fruit Surface Temperature
Students: Sophia McMahon, Taylor Tran
Mentors: Tamim Ahmed, Dr. Monowar Hasan

Using Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Capture-The-Flag Challenges and Certification Questions
Students: Kevin Kagawa, Dylan Phipps
Mentors: Alan Sun, James Halvorsen