|
|
|
|
A Message from the Executive Director
|
|
Dear <<First Name>>,
I’m particularly proud that CCI researchers and students swept the Best Demonstration Paper awards at the prestigious IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) held earlier this month in Boston.
MILCOM is unique because it brings together researchers from academia, industry, and military organizations to address critical challenges in military communications. More than 900 attendees from 20 countries attended the sold-out event, which has unrestricted, restricted, and classified tracks. The conference focused on communications in contested environments. I was honored to serve as general chair.
CCI winners include:
-
"Demonstration of Closed-loop AI-driven RAN Controllers Using O-RAN SDR Testbed" by Nathan H. Stephenson, Azuka J. Chiejina, Nathaniel B. Kabigting, and Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University);
-
"End-to-end O-RAN Control Loop for Radio Resource Allocation in SDR-based 5G Network" by Asheesh Tripathi, Jaswanth S. R. Mallu, Md Habibur Rahman, Abida Sultana, Aditya Sathish, Alexandre Huff, Mayukh Roy Chowdhury, and Aloizio P Pereira Da Silva (Virginia Tech);
-
"Adaptive Beam Management for Secure MmWave Communications Using Software-defined Radios" by Adrian L. Baron-Hyppolite, Jefferson Viana Fonseca Abreu, Joao F. Santos, Luiz DaSilva, and Jacek Kibilda (Virginia Tech).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CCI researcher leads world’s first fully automated AI and
cyberbiosecurity water lab
|
|
Cyberattacks can hit crucial water supplies. To address threats to our critical infrastructure, CCI researcher Feras A. Batarseh, who’s also an associate professor with the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, led the creation of the AI and Cyber for Water and Ag (ACWA) lab at Virginia Tech. It’s the first lab in the world to combine cyberbiosecurity and artificial intelligence automation to research water security. CCI postdoc Ajay Kulkarni is also part of the ACWA team.
“ACWA lab is aimed at creating a test bed for water supply systems, water distribution systems, and water treatment plants in the United States to test potential incidents like cyberattacks and protect against them,” Batarseh said. “The lab is able to provide data sets that are not easily created anywhere else in the world by combining the cyber components and computational components with water quality and quantity aspects, such as water flow, pH and nitrogen rates, and so on.”
|
|
JMU research leader, vice provost joins CCI Technical Advisory Board
|
|
I’m delighted to welcome Anthony Tongen, chief research officer and vice provost of James Madison University, to our Technical Advisory Board.
We rely upon our board’s highly experienced experts to help guide our growth and direction. Anthony’s insight will be invaluable as CCI continues to outpace expectations, contributing to the security and economic well-being of Virginia and the nation.
|
|
New home in the works for
CCI Coastal Virginia
|
|
This month, Old Dominion University, the lead university of CCI Coastal Virginia, opened the Virginia Beach Institute of Data Science. CCI Coastal Virginia will join the new facility, which also has dedicated training space for cybersecurity simulations.
|
|
Inaugural CCI SWVA Graduate
Student Summit
|
|
Earlier this month, CCI Southwest Virginia hosted the inaugural CCI Graduate Student Summit. Students from across multiple disciplines delivered in-depth presentations about their cybersecurity and cyber-adjacent research to an audience of their peers, as well as faculty members and the CCI SWVA team. The students could practice public speaking and research presentation skills and receive thoughtful feedback from the audience. Research projects ranged from the risks of sharing information about children online to machine-learning-based detection of GPS spoofing attacks.
|
|
Coastal Virginia Cybersecurity Student Association (CVCSA) readies for Cyberforge 2024
|
|
Cybersecurity students go beyond classroom work and internships to host their own capture-the-flag events.
Cyberforge 2024 is coming to Tidewater Community College on Feb. 10. The two-day conference and CTF competition is hosted by the Coastal Virginia Cybersecurity Student Association (CVCSA) and CCI Coastal Virginia. Cybersecurity enthusiasts can register to learn from cyber professionals and compete in the CTF competition.
|
|
New CCI Central Virginia
online speaker series
|
|
Learn more about CCI research from this new series.
-
Tamer Nadeem, a Virginia Commonwealth University computer science associate professor, will discuss “Haptics for Network Traffic Monitoring and Situation Awareness” on Nov. 29 at 10 a.m.
-
Yanxiao Zhao, VCU computer engineering associate professor, will address “ML-based CAN Bus Data Attack Detection in Autonomous Vehicles” on Dec. 6 at 10 a.m.
|
|
Commonwealth Cyber Fusion connects companies with students
|
|
Virginia companies have discovered where to find up-and-coming cybersecurity professionals –– at Commonwealth Cyber Fusion, which will be held Feb. 23-24, 2024, at the Virginia Military Institute.
The invitation-only hackathon event is great for students, and companies benefit, too! At Cyber Fusion’s job fair and employer panel, companies such as CACI have met future interns who have become full-time employees. I encourage our industry partners to beat the rush and join this event.
|
|
CCI Central Virginia Innovation and Commercialization Call for Proposals
|
|
The CCI Central Virginia Node (CVN), led by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), has opened a call for proposals to fund projects that will result in either an operational prototype or further a start-up/product in its development. Deadline is Dec. 15.
|
|
Missed the Clearance
Preparedness Series?
|
|
Our popular Clearance Preparedness Program, which gives you all the details about how to obtain a security clearance, finishes its first series of sessions on Nov. 29, 2:30-3:30 p.m. We’re launching a new series in February. Stay tuned!
|
|
I am grateful for our students who will be solving tomorrow’s cyber challenges, researchers and professors who are advancing their fields while teaching the next generation of cybersecurity experts, and the innovators who are taking what we learn and creating new products to help protect our daily lives.
Cheers,
Luiz DaSilva
Executive Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|