Program

Workshop Program (10/24, Saturday)

8:30am~9:00am Workshop check-in
9:00am~9:10am Opening Remarks

  • Lawrence Earl Whitman, Dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
9:10am~10:10am Keynote Session

  • Keynote Speech: Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing For Secure Social Networking And Internet Of Things
    • Bhavani Thuraisingham, Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I, Distinguished Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
10:10am~10:40am Coffee break
10:40am~12:00pm Research Presentations Session I
Session Chair: Shucheng Yu
(15 min Presentation + 5 min Q&A for each one)
  • Design Secure Mobile Systems against Behavioral Pattern Inference Attacks
    • Presenter: Tingxin Yan, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • Enhanced Database Security Using Homomorphic Encryption
    • Presenter: Chia-Chu Chiang, Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Trust-Aware Review Spam Detection
    • Presenter: Hao Xue, The University of Kansas
  • Security Evaluation of Android Mobile Health Care and Fitness Applications
    • Presenter: Suzan Anwar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
12:00pm~1:30pm Lunch and Poster Session
  • Compound TCP Implementation in ns-3
    • Presenter: Amir Modarresi, The University of Kansas
  • Cyber-Physical Security for Smart Cars – Taxonomy of Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Attacks
    • Presenter: Abdulmalik Humayed, The University of Kansas
  • Resilience of KanREN to Large-Scale Disasters
    • Presenter: Yufei Cheng, The University of Kansas
1:30pm~2:30pm Panel Session
Theme: From Seeding to Cultivation – Regional and National Cyber Security Workforce Development

Moderator:

  • Kenji Yoshigoe, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Panelists:

  • Micah Bell, Chief, Information Technology Training CenterNational Guard Professional Education Center (DOD-ARNG-PEC)
  • Carl Frank, Instructor, Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts; Head of the Arkansas Computer Science teachers group; and President, Arkansas Computer Science Teachers Association
  • Bhavani Thuraisingham,  Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science; Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research Institute, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Fengjun Li, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) Information & Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), The University of Kansas
  • Pamela Whitaker, CEO, East Coast Awakening; Academic Relations Coordinator, ISACA Central Arkansas Chapter
2:30pm~2:50pm Coffee Break
3:00pm~3:20pm Guanyu Tian. Reroute on Loop in Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Content Sharing Network. Fontbonne University.
3:20pm~3:40pm Haymanot Gebre-Amlak, Goutham Banala, Sejun Song, Baek-Young Choi, Taesang Choi (ETRI), and Henry Zhu (Cisco). Topology-aware Network Reliability Management Framework for Softwarized Networks. University of Missouri – Kansas City.
3:40pm~4:00pm Uday Ganesh Kanteti, Bruce McMillin. Multiple Security Domain Model of a Vehicle in an Automated Vehicle System. Missouri University of Science and Technology.
4:00pm~4:20pm Mortada A. Aman, Egemen K. Çetinkaya. A Secure Backup System with Encryption Intensity Selection and Deduplication. Missouri University of Science and Technology.
4:20pm~4:30pm Coffee break
2:50pm~4:10pm Research Presentations Session II
Session Chair: Baek-Young Choi
(15 min Presentation + 5 min Q&A for each one)
  • OptLock: Optical Wireless (Un)locking for Smart Door Locks Using Smartphones
    • Presenter: Kaustubh Dhondge, University of Missouri – Kansas City
  • Protecting Invasion of Privacy on Smart Home from Traffic Analysis via Synthetic Packet Injection
    • Presenter: Wei Dai, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Enhancing Traffic Analysis Resistance for Tor Hidden Services with Multipath Routing
    • Presenter: Lei Yang, The University of Kansas
  • ​Software-Defined Networking on IP-Based WSNs: Facilitate IoT and a vision of Sensing-as-a-Service
    • Presenter: Hadi Rashid, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
4:30pm Closing remarks.


Cyber Defense Competition (10/24, Saturday)

8:00am~8:30am Check-in
8:30am~9:00am White team briefing and setup
9:00am~9:10am Opening Remarks

  • Lawrence Earl Whitman, Dean of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
9:10am~10:10am Keynote Session

  • Keynote Speech: Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing For Secure Social Networking And Internet Of Things
    • Bhavani Thuraisingham, Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I, Distinguished Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
10:10am~4:00pm Competition
12:00pm~1:30pm Lunch
4:30pm Closing remarks.