Detailed Program

Time zone: Tampa Time (GMT-4)

Keynotes Location for May 19th: Vaughn Center Crescent Club

Technical Sessions and Keynotes Location: Plant Hall, the Fletcher Lounge.

Monday, May 19th, 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration & Breakfast
09:00-09:15	Opening
09:15-10:00	Keynote 1: Roger Grimes Title: Taming the Hacker Storm: A Way to Defeat Cybercriminals and Malware Room: Vaughn Center Crescent Club (9th floor)@ 200 UT Poe Pkwy, Tampa, FL 33606
10:00-11:00	Keynote 2: Michael Esola Title: Catching 'Em All: Navigating Data Privacy and Cybersecurity in Augmented Reality Games Room: Vaughn Center Crescent Club (9th floor)@ 200 UT Poe Pkwy, Tampa, FL 33606
11:00 -11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:30	Technical Session 1	Chair: Mohan Gurusamy and John Acken Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Relationship-based Distributed and Variable Trust Metrics for Secure Computing John Acken, Naresh Sehgal, Sonali Fernando, Divya Bansal and Robert Bass CRICE: Cyber Range Infrastructure for Cybersecurity Education Sajal Bhatia, Irfan Ahmed and Nitin Talreja Highlight to explain: a case study on explainable AI for pattern discovery in code Mohamad Nassar and Jacques Bou Abdo.
12:30 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 2	Chair: Francesco Bergadano and Collin Connors Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Keyed randomization with adversarial failure curves and moving target defense Francesco Bergadano, Sandeep Gupta and Bruno Crispo Tailored Large Language Models for Spam Detection: From Model Customization to Benchmarking Effectiveness Amani Shatnawi, Anas Alsobeh, Izzat Alsmadi and Bilal Al-Ahmad Privacy-Preserving Training and Interference of CNNs: A Medical Performance Case Study Thomas Prantl, Louis Schneider, Simon Engel, Lukas Horn, Vanessa Borst, Christian Krupitzer, Samuel Kounev and Rafael Bonilla. Web3 Architecture's Inherent Cybersecurity Through Data and Information Safeguards Collin Connors and Dilip Sarkar. Time Series Based Network Intrusion Detection using MTF-Aided Transformer Poorvi Joshi and Mohan Gurusamy
15:30 -16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:45	Technical Session 3 (Online)	Chair: Mohammed El-Hajj and Fahed Alkhabbas Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Consensus-driven Intrusion Detection Systems: Enhancing Performance and Fault-tolerance using Approximate Consensus Kritee Neupane, Lewis Tseng and Moayad Aloqaily. Privacy-Preserving Mitigation of Poisoning Attacks in Three-Tier Federated Learning Ming Liu and Wensheng Zhang. AI-Powered Threat Detection and Response: Leveraging Machine Learning for Real-Time Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Using Network Traffic Data Mohammed El-Hajj Lightweight Post-Quantum Cryptographic Solutions for IoT: A Practical Approach Mohammed El-Hajj Safeguarding the Artificial Pancreas: A Review of Security and Reliability Gaps and AI Driven Resilience Venkata Sai Abhinav Piratla, Sahaj Saxena, Sajal Bhatia and Navin Kumar
18:00 -20:00	Welcome Dinner @ Petra Restaurant Address: 1118 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
08:00-17:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Keynote 3: Prof. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal Title: IoTility: Unleashing the Utility of Internet of Things through Microservices Architectural Extensions Room: Plant Hall, the Fletcher Lounge.
10:00 -10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30	Technical Session 4	Chair: Anyi Liu and Ala Jararweh Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Mitigating Ransomware Attacks in Internet of Medical Things Networks Yasir Malik, Usman Tariq and Fehmi Jaafar DeepTrAnS: Mixer-based Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection for Servers Muhammad Anas Raza, Mohammad Wardat and Anyi Liu LLaVul: A Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Vulnerability Reasoning about Source Code Ala Jararweh, Michael Adams, Avinash Sahu, Abdullah Mueen and Afsah Anwar SecureLLM: Leveraging Large Language Models for Fault Detection in Connected Vehicles Rakesh Das, Henry Griffith and Heena Rathore.
12:30 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 5A	Chair: Junaid Shuja and Yaser Jararweh Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		From Transaction to Transformation: AI and Machine Learning in FinTech Yazan Al Ahmed, Abdulla Osman, Abrar Ahmed, Dina Salem and Yanal Al Ahmad Blockchain for Critical Infrastructure Security: Applications and Challenges Udit Gulati and Mahesh Narayanan A Lightweight and Efficient Intrusion Detection System for Drone Networks Fawaz Alruwaili and Cihan Tunc. ProSoccerTrainer: An AI-powered Penalty Detection and Performance Recommendation System Kushagra Nagar and Upendra Singh
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 5B (Online)	Chair: Mohammed Al-Abdullah Zoom link: https://utampa.zoom.us/j/93210286275?pwd=HaZoXsZq7Xl4WjgzgXjqHnM8rJKlFA.1
		Deep Learning-Driven Automated Data Generation for Enhanced Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity Michael Gough, Ali Dewan and Harris Wang From Abstract Prompts to Cybersecurity Labs: Automating Virtual Environment Design and Deployment with Multi-Agent Systems and LLM-Driven Orchestration Ziad Miniesy, Ali Eissa, Yaseen Ahmed, Mohamed Sherif, Omar Miniesy, Omar Harb and Amr El Mougy Adaptive Cyber Attack Projection through Context-Driven Model Selection: Combining Graph Attention Networks and Reinforcement Learning Mouhamadou Lamine Diakhame, Chérif Diallo and Mohamed Mejri Mining Intrusion Analysis Diamonds from Security Information and Events Logs Mahmoud Al-Maani and Mohammed Alsaleh
15:30 -16:00	Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30	Technical Session 6 (Online)	Chair: Fahed Alkhabbas and Johnny Reynaga Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Technology Platforms for Cybersecurity: A Comparative Analysis Carlos Quispe, Johnny Reynaga and José Santisteban. Advanced Document Processing Using LLM and RAG: An Innovative Approach to Efficiency and Privacy Mateusz Plonka, Krzysztof Kocot, Krzysztof Daniec and Aleksander Nawrat. A Device-Centric and Temporal Learning Framework for Malicious IoT Traffic Detection Mustafa Daraghmeh, Islam Obaidat, Yaser Jararweh, Anjali Agarwal, Kuljeet Kaur
18:00-21:00	Gala Dinner Columbia Restaurant @ 2117 E. 7th Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33605

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
08:00-17:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Keynote 4: Bryson Bort Title: From Cyber Threats to National Security: Turning Adversarial Weaknesses into Resilient Defenses Room: Room: Plant Hall, the Fletcher Lounge.
10:00 -10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30	Technical Session 7	Chair: Raghavan Krishnasamy and Yaser Jararweh Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		DeFeAt: Explanable TinyML-based Framework for Anomaly Detection in Nano-Sensor Traffic in 6G-Enabled Smart Grid Shreya Bhatia, Dharma Trivedi, Shivanshi Bhatt, Lakshin Pathak, Krisha Shastri, Karm Vyas, Dev Mehta, Rajesh Gupta and Dr. Sudeep Tanwar Towards Holistic Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems: Insights into Latency and Detection Metrics Sandhyarani Dash, John Acken and Ruimin Dai Holistic Ethical Commons: A Dynamic Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Multi-Agent AI Systems Raghavan Krishnasamy Lakshmana Perumal API Security Framework for Multi-Controller Architecture in Software-Defined Networking Sumit Badotra and Mohan Gurusamy
12:30 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 8 (Short Papers)	Chair: Cihan Tunc and Khalaf Tahat Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Rule-Based Hybrid Adaptive Encryption Model for Autonomous Flight to Secure UAS Data Streams in Real-Time Fadjimata Issoufou Anaroua, Yongxin Liu and Hong Liu Formulation of a Contingent and Resilient Response to Cyber Security Threats Jordanian Government Digital Services Razan Almomany, Mohammed Habes, Dina Tahat, Khalaf M. Tahat and Makrem Ziani Enhancing error-minimizing noises using data augmentations Long Dang, Thushari Hapuarachchi and Kaiqi Xiong. Investigating UXSS Vulnerabilities in Modern Web Browsers Hrishikesh Dahale Quantum-Assisted XAI-Driven DL Framework for FDI Detection in Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicles Underlying 6G Dev Mehta, Vrutik Soni, Param Desai, Dharma Trivedi, Lakshin Pathak, Rajesh Gupta and Dr. Sudeep Tanwar
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 9 (online)	Chair: Rolph Abraham Yao and William Kandolo Zoom link: https://utampa.zoom.us/j/97566054124?pwd=2OhgWR7NvQQarfNrqaOiUy5psuxNLd.1
		Optimizing DDoS Attacks Detection in SDN using Machine learning Rolph Abraham Yao and Ferdinand Tonguim Guinko Intelligent Anomaly Detection in Database Security: A Triple Loop Learning Approach William Kandolo Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning and RLHF: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Vulnerabilities, Mitigation Strategies, and Alignment Challenges Tiechuan Hu, Wenbo Zhu and Yuqi Yan Real-Time Anomaly Detection: A Hybrid Approach Combining Streaming SQL and Hardware Acceleration Sudheer Kumar Lagisetty and Anil Kumar Moka AI-Enhanced Telehealth Platforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Automated Triage and Personalized Care Systems Sudheer Kumar Lagisetty, Priya Devarajulu and Anil Kumar Moka BPMN to Smart Contract by Business Analyst Chris Liu, Peter Bodorik and Dawn Jutla
15:30 -16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00	Technical Session 10 (Online)	Chair: Chaitanya Rahalkar and Alexander Lawall Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65908996634
		Securing Wireless SDN Controller from Jamming Attackn Chandan Kumar and Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari Impact of Target Network-Specific Data on the Performance of Machine-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System Models Alexander Lawall and Thomas Zöller Detection of Fileless Malware Bhaskar Pal, Hitesh Reddy, Saurav S and Vasudevan Ar Revisiting Fidelity in Explainable AI: Unpacking Cognitive Biases and Deceptive Transparency in Model Interpretations Akshar Patel. Evaluating Privacy-Preserving Strategies in Bitcoin and Beyond Chaitanya Rahalkar and Anushka Virgaonkar Evolution of the Tor Network: An Empirical Analysis of Usage Patterns and Infrastructure Chaitanya Rahalkar and Anushka Virgaonkar
16:00 - 18:00	Technical Session 11 (Online)	Chair: Mustafa Daraghmeh and Iram Bibi Zoom link: https://utampa.zoom.us/j/97566054124?pwd=2OhgWR7NvQQarfNrqaOiUy5psuxNLd.1
		Blocking Fake News Propagation exploiting OSNs Users Interests and Connections Farwa Batool, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Morana and Giuseppe Rizzo Enhancing IoT Attack Classification through Domain Generalization Iram Bibi, Tanir Ozcelebi and Nirvana Meratnia AI-Driven Adaptive Gait Biometrics: Pioneering Real-Time Continuous Authentication for Enhanced Security Mehdi Mekni, Emmanuel O. Ogunwobi, Shannon C. Russell, Mohamad Nassar, Adwoa Donyina Anomaly Detection and Clustering for Resource Usage Segmentation in Cloud Data Centers Mustafa Daraghmeh, Fadi Alzhouri, Anjali Agarwal and Yaser Jararweh CATCH: A Tool to Automatic Deploy Decoys and Breadcrumbs Based on Network Analysis Pushpinder Chouhan, Maurizio Colombo, Rasool Asal and Zhan Cui Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Cybersecurity Policy Enforcemen Srikanta Datta Prasad Tumkur Narahari Datta, Vinoth Ganesh Umamageswari Asokan

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
9:00 to 12:00	The Federated Learning Workshops Zoom link: https://bth.zoom.us/j/62472250069
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
Event in Closing @ Plant Hall, the Fletcher Lounge