Feb & March 2024:

1. Sindhuja Penchala awarded $200 for travel funds from the college. 

2. Sindhuja presented :Unveiling Text Mining Potential: A Comparative Analysis of Document Classification Algo at 39th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2024)- New Orleans

3. Our paper :On further improvement of data look-up latency in Residue Class (RC) based Peer-2-Peer networks, awarded the bet paper finalist at 39th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2024)- New Orleans

Jan 2024:

1. Two manuscripts accepted for presentation and publication at 39th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2024)

   • On further improvement of data look-up latency in Residue Class (RC) based Peer-2-Peer networks

   • Unveiling Text Mining Potential: A Comparative Analysis of Document Classification Algorithms

2. One manuscript submitted to The The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI 2024) 2024 Conference.

   • Analyzing Darknet Traffic: Classification and Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks

December 2023:

1.  One manuscript submitted to The 62nd ACMSE 2024 Conference.

   • Enabling Seamless Healthcare Services with RC-Based Geographical Peer-to-Peer Fog Architecture in the Healthcare 4.0

2. Two manuscripts submitted to 39th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2024):

   • On further improvement of data look-up latency in Residue Class (RC) based Peer-2-Peer networks

   • Unveiling Text Mining Potential: A Comparative Analysis of Document Classification Algorithms

November 2023:

1. Rabeea Fatima and Sajim Ahmed represented USM and the CIL lab very well at the GC3 Conference. Their research poster, titled 'A Machine Learning Approach for Ransomware Detection,' was awarded first place at the conference. The 10th annual Gulf Coast Chapters Conference (GC3) was held in Biloxi, MS, where researchers from Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi showcased their research findings.

2.   New Journal Acceptance  

• Title: Priority Based Job Scheduling Technique that Utilizes Gaps to Increase the Efficiency of Job Distribution in Cloud Computing  

• Journal: Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Elsevier.

October 2023:

1. During an invited talk at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Rahimi presented a novel research titled 'CryptoLoc: Secure Decentralized Location-based Cryptography without GPS'.

2.  Saydul Akbar Murad represented USM and CIL Lab at "IEEE- 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023), San Antonio, and presented: Secure and Scalable Permissioned Blockchain using LDE-P2P Networks

3. Rabeea Fatima and Sajim Ahmed, undergraduate researchers at the CIL lab, recently submitted a poster titled 'A Machine Learning Approach for Ransomware Detection' to the Gulf Coast Annual Regional Conference (GC3). Excitingly, the poster has been accepted.

September 2023:

1. New Conference Paper Publication Acceptance:

• Title: Secure and Scalable Permissioned Blockchain using LDE-P2P Networks

• Authors: Saydul Akbar Murad, Nick Rahimi 

• Conference: 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023), San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023

• Co-Sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council

2. Saydul Akbar Murad awarded another $300 for travel funds from the Graduate School. 

August 2023:

1.  New Journal Publication 

• Title: SG-PBFS: Shortest Gap-Priority Based Fair Scheduling technique for job scheduling in cloud environment

• Authors: Saydul Akbar Murad, Zafril Rizal M. Azmi, Abu Jafar Md Muzahid, MD. Khairul Bashar Bhuiyan, Md Saib, Nick Rahimi, Nusrat Jahan Prottasha, Anupam Kumar Bairagi

• Journal: Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. Impact Factor: 7.5

2. Saydul Akbar Murad awarded $500 for travel funds from the Graduate Committee in the School of BEES 

July 2023:

1. Saydul Akbar Murad presented PhishGuard: Machine Learning-Powered Phishing URL Detection at IEEE CPS International Conference. The presentation can be viewed via the link provided above

2.  New Book Chapter Publication Acceptance:

• Title: Security Challenges in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

• Authors: Seydul Akbar Murad, Nick Rahimi, Indranil Roy, Bidyut Gupta

• Journal: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group -Date: 26 Jun 2023

June 2023: New Journal Publication Acceptance:

• Title: The Advantages of Optimizing Reaction Conditions Using Machine Learning to Improve and Predict Yield for the Polyol Millifluidic Synthesis of Silver Nanowires

• Authors: Destiny  Williams, Nick Rahimi, James Smay, Shohreh Hemmati

• Journal: Springer, Applied Nanoscience

• Date: 22 Jun 2023

March 2023: Heather Broome and Yaju Shrestha , undergraduate researchers at Cyber Innovations Lab awarded 2nd place in computing Undergraduate Symposium for Research and Creative Activity at Southern Miss. Their reserach entitled : "Darknet Traffic Classification and Adversarial Attacks." Aayush Gautam and NyZaireyus Harrison are collaborating in this research as well. 

1. April 2023: Aayush Gautam awarded Drapeau Summer Research Grant for $4000. Aayush will be working on "Deep Learning Approaches for Detecting Advanced Persistent Threats in Enterprise Networks" under supervisor of Dr. Rahimi. Congratulations Aayush!

2. March 2023- Aayush Gautam, an undergrad researcher presented his first-ever research paper on the "Viability of Machine Learning in Android Scareware Detection" at the 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2023)

1. April 2023: A research paper entitled: "PhishGuard: Machine Learning-Powered Phishing URL Detection" accepted in Las Vegas, Nevada: IEEE CPS /The 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence.

2. April 2023: Seydul Akbar Murad, an PhD student in Cyber Innovations Lab presented his paper on the "Design of a New Secured Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Fog Architecture Based on Linear Diophantine Equation" at the 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2023).

May 2023: New Journal Publication Acceptance:

• Title: Secured Communication in Generalized Non DHT-based Pyramid Tree           

• Authors: Nick Rahimi, Indranil Roy, Ziping Liu, Bidyut Gupta, Narayan Debnath

• Journal: International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA)

• Date: 28 May 2023