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CAE Community of Practice Cyber Research

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2025 CAE Community Symposium CoP-R Activities

  • The CAE-R Community of Practice (CoP) held its first Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at the 2024 CAE Community Symposium (April 16-17, 2024 @ Louisville, Kentucky).

     

    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 2024 CAE Community Symposium.

     

    After nominations were received, faculty in the CAE Community voted for the topics that they feel are most relevant and are interested in discussing as part of the discussions. The topics that received the most votes were discussed at the BoF. Results of the discussions were briefed to the CAE Community at large right after the end of the BoF discussions.

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    Nomination Details

    • Submissions are now closed.

    • Submission deadline: February 16, 2025 (11.59pm PT).

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    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 April 18, 2025

  • Following the success of the panel sessions at the 2024 CAE-R Symposium, we are asking members of the CAE Community to propose panel topics for a panel to be held as part of the CoP-R session at the 2025 CAE Community Symposium. Panel Details: Topic: “Generic Large Language Model in Cybersecurity”

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    Panelists:

    • Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta, Professor CS, Fellow NAI, AIIA, IEEE, The University of Memphis (moderator)

    • Dr. Latifur Khan, Professor, CS, Fellow of IEEE, University of Texas at Dallas

    • Dr. Kun Sun, Professor of Information Sc., George Mason University

    • Dr. Hyungsub Kim, Assistant Professor CS, Indiana University Bloomington

2024 CAE Community Symposium CoP-R Activities

  • 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.

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    Nomination Details

    • Submissions are now closed.

    • Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 (11.59pm PT).

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    Voting Details

    • Voting is now closed.

    • Submission deadline: March 12, 2024 (11.59pm PT).

    • Only ONE (1) submission allowed per person.

     

    In response to the Call for Nominations, we received 16 submissions from faculty at CAE institutions. We then asked the CAE Community to vote on the topics they felt were most relevant and were interested in discussing as part of the BoF session.

     

    Below are the topics that were available for voting:

    • Adversarial Machine Learning

    • AI Cybersecurity

    • AI, Security, and Privacy

    • AI's Role in Cybersecurity

    • Blockchain in Cybersecurity

    • Code Vulnerability Detection

    • In-vehicle Network Challenges

    • Intrusive Behavior Detection

    • LLMs and Cybersecurity

    • National Testbed

    • Occlusion Handling

    • Quantifying Cybersecurity

    • Ransomware Detection

    • Social Science of Cybersecurity

    • Socio-tech Systems Cybersecurity

    • Supply Chain Cybersecurity

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    Discussions

    Below are the topics of each BoF discussion held at the 2024 CAE Community Symposium. The discussions were held in parallel, with each discussion lasting for 1.5 hours.

     

    • AI's Role in Cybersecurity — Moderator: Stephen Huang, University of Houston

    • AI, Security, and Privacy — Moderator: Sandra Moore, University of New Mexico

    • LLMs and Cybersecurity — Moderator: Prashnna Gyawali, West Virginia University

    • Supply Chain Cybersecurity — Moderator: Yair Levy, Nova Southeastern University

    • Ransomware Detection — Moderator: Tarek Saadawi, City College of New York

    • Social Science of Cybersecurity — Moderator: Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa

    • Quantifying Cybersecurity — Moderator: Javed Khan, Kent State University

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    Updated April 18, 2025

Updated: April 18, 2025

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