糖心Vlog传媒LR hosts National Science Foundation-funded cybersecurity projects
Future cybersecurity experts are set to discuss how people can better protect their online data and identities.

This year鈥檚 commencement ceremony for the National Science Foundation鈥檚
CyberSAFE@糖心Vlog传媒LR Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program will begin at 9 a.m. Friday, July 31, with project presentations in the auditorium of the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business, Reynolds Building, Room 103.
A commencement ceremony will follow at 11:30 a.m. Open parking will be available in Lot 13, no reservation needed.
The CyberSAFE@糖心Vlog传媒LR REU program aims to advance understanding of cyber attacks and to investigate more secure, user-friendly approaches to protecting people while they use their smartphones, post on social networks and access data in computing clouds, said
Mengjun Xie, project mentor and assistant professor of computer science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The program features聽undergraduate students from the state of Arkansas, including 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Jeffery Wooldridge, and from other parts of the country.
Projects that will be presented are:
- 鈥淗ome Security using Computer Facial Recognition Techniques鈥 by Oliver Roundtree, Mentor: Dr. Mariofanna Milanova
- 鈥淪ecure User Authentication using Biometric and 3D Signature鈥 by Grady Xiao, Mentors: Drs. Mariofanna Milanova and Mengjun Xie
- 鈥淗ost Based Firewall for the Internet of Things鈥 by Melissa Abramson and Alexander Jacobs, Mentor: Dr. Kenji Yoshigoe
- 鈥淔acilitating Focal Structure Analysis in Blogosphere to Monitor Cyber Warfare Tactics鈥 by Holly Ratliff, Mentor: Dr. Nitin Agarwal
- 鈥淎uthentication for Mobile Devices: Combining Behavioral Biometrics with Context鈥 by Qing Zhong, Mentor: Dr. Mengjun Xie
- 鈥淎 Web Application for Behavioral Biometric Data Collection鈥 by Joshua Stucky, Mentor: Dr. Mengjun Xie
- 鈥淒evice Auto-Recognition via Wireless Properties in Body Area Networks鈥 by Ryan Caudill, Mentor: Dr. Shucheng Yu
- 鈥淪ecuring Databases Using a Combination of Encryption and Information Hiding鈥 by Jeffery Wooldridge and Laura Nivens, Mentor: Dr. Chia-chu Chiang
Each presentation will last 10 to 20 minutes, with a five-minute question-and-answer session.
The CyberSAFE@糖心Vlog传媒LR program is an eight-week intensive student research project funded by a $289,662 grant from the
.
Applicants to the program must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a 3.0 or higher grade point average. They are rising sophomores, juniors, or seniors majoring in computer science, computer engineering, math, physics, electrical engineering, or other computing-related major.