I am Dean Wasil, a senior at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, located in central Ohio. I major in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. My interests within Computer Science include software engineering, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things. My extracurricular hobbies include cross country running, calisthenics, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, drumming, playing piano, socializing, and volunteer work. My summer research targeted vulnerabilities in mobile networks. I focused on creating and testing an attack that allowed a victim’s mobile data usage to be consumed by an attacker, a Mobile Data Consumption Attack.

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I’m a rising junior at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I am pursuing a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a double major in Robotics. As an REU student, this summer I am conducting research under Dr. Zhang and Dr. Jin in the hardware security lab where I am focusing on two projects. The first project investigates and addresses the vulnerabilities associated with the access given to Android phones through a USB connection, while the second project explores the vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi access points around the UCF campus.

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I am a senior studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am also enrolled in an integrated program and will be pursuing a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well at Carnegie Mellon University. My project is the Internet of Hospital Things with Dr. Greg Welch, and my goal is to create an infrastructure-less indoor localization device that can be used in a hospital.

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I’m a rising Junior at Morgan State University, currently pursuing a B.S in Electrical Engineering. I plan to pursue a Master’s degree in the near future. Through NSF REU program on Internet of Things (IoT), I am conducting research this summer with Dr. Guo-Jun Qi on developing machine learning algorithm for image classification and semantic segmentation. The goal is to distill useful information from user-generated data such as Images and videos collected from IoT devices. This work will allow users to rapidly retrieve multi-modal content on their smart devices.

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My name is Nicole Fella and I am a rising junior at Manhattan College. I am pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. This summer, I am working with Dr. Fei Liu and Kexin Liao using machine learning and natural language processing to study and identify vagueness in privacy policies. For more information, please feel free to contact me at nicolelfella@gmail.com

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I am a junior at New Mexico State University currently pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. This summer I am working under Dr. Hyoung Cho and PhD students in the Development of Wireless gas sensors. The goal of our research is to fabricate and monitor Chemiresistor-based sensors that are also based on nanoscale structures. Traditional Sensors reach their performance due to the addition of heating elements that add up to the cost and power consumption. By developing sensors in the nanoscales many of this elements can be eliminated allowing for a friendlier cost and low power consumption of the sensors. My main focus in this project is monitoring the variation and changes of current in the sensor as a gas is detected, by creating a wireless ammeter that collects data in a given amount of time, it allows us to have better analysis of the sensor. This analysis can then help have a better approach to fabricating or improving details to obtain a better sensor. Here you will find my project presentations. Feel free to contact me if there is any questions to jcvigil@nmsu.edu

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My name is Bryan Pearson, and I will soon be entering my junior year at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. I am currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science whilst also pursuing minors in math and physics. This summer, I am researching the various security vulnerabilities related to IoT devices under the supervision of Dr. Yier Jin and Dr. Shaojie Zhang. Specifically, I am evaluating the inner workings of hardware security for devices such as the Phantom 3 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 by attempting to exploit the protocols for this technology.

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I am a rising senior from Ohio University. I am working with Dr. Turgut on “Investigating the Value of Privacy within the Internet of Things.” We believe IoT users can be seen as participating in a series of transactions involving the exchange of private data for services. To investigate in such a model, I spent the summer implementing a modified version of the Android operating system. Using this, we can assess the value of different forms of private data, and determine whether users are making advantageous “trades” with their information.

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