The CAE-R Community of Practice (CoP) held its second Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at the 2025 CAE Community Symposium (April 8-10, 2025 @ Charleston, South Carolina).

The Call for Nominations solicited nominations of emerging research topics in Cybersecurity from research-active faculty in the CAE Community who are interested in leading and/or participating in a BoF session of the CAE-R CoP at the 2025 CAE Community Symposium.

Results of the discussions were briefed to the CAE Community at large as part of the CoP-R track at the Symposium.

Nomination Details

• Submissions are now closed.
• Submission deadline: February 16, 2025 (11.59pm PT). 

BoF 2025 Discussions

Below are the topics of each BoF discussion held at the 2025 CAE Community Symposium. The discussions were held in parallel, with each discussion lasting for 1.5 hours.

• Ethical and Privacy Concerns of AI — Moderator: Tahir Khan, Western Illinois University
• LLMs in Social Engineering and Information Warfare — Moderator: Derek Hansen, Brigham Young University
• Cyber Conflict and State Capabilities — Moderator: Karl Grindal, University of New Hampshire
• Behavior-based Anomaly Detection for Cyber Attacks: Challenges and Opportunities — Moderator: Stephen Huang, University of Houston
• Sovereign AI for Cybersecurity — Moderator: Javed Khan, Kent State University

Updated: Apr 18, 2025