Patrick is a Senior undergraduate student in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is working with Dr. Turgut to further develop an Android Operating System to better protect and evaluate a user’s privacy. Android application, PrivacyGate, works by having the user choose to accept monetary offers in exchange for the access to the user’s information in a quid-pro-quo transactional interface. Patrick has been changing the system to instead ask the user how much they would be willing to pay to stop sharing their information.

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I am Shanzila Chowdhury, a junior in North Carolina State University and Meredith College, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. I am pursuing B.S. in Electrical Engineering from NCSU, and B.A. in Mathematics from Meredith College. The project I will be working on this summer is “Internet of Things for Health and Wellness” under Dr. David Metcalf’s supervision in METIL. The project explores various clinical, home, wearable, and connected medical device technologies throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Specific tasks include evaluation of hardware, software, and network engineering solutions available currently and during pre-market engineering and development phases. I will also be a part of the team conducting human factors engineering analysis and evaluation across a wide spectrum of IoT solution including wearables for Johnson & Johnson, home IoT solution for the Lake Nona medical city WHIT project, and connected city in Pasco County, Florida.

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I am a junior mechanical engineering student at Michigan State University. I am working under Dr. Cho in the development of a chemiresistor-based gas sensor. When the sensor is exposed to a specific gas the electrical resistance changes as a result of a chemical reaction. A homemade multimeter will be used to measure the sensor’s power, current, and resistance as it is exposed to a gas. Feel free to contact me at chand117@msu.edu.

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I am Tianbo Chen, a rising junior at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am pursuing a major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. My research here with Dr. Cliff Zou focuses on implementing a new type of captcha system which requires users to sort images based on abstract properties rather than having them type text. This new captcha system will help thwart automated attacks on the current text based captchas.

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Hello! I am a rising junior at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, where I am pursuing double majors in mathematics and computer
science. This summer I am working with Dr. Greg Welch and Dr. Gerd Bruder to develop an interface which unifies AR scenes
generated by a Microsoft HoloLens with IoT devices. The application of this technology is for the AR world to use such
IoT devices to be able to interact with the real world, and to provide a much more immersive AR experience. You can contact me at
bbelna@stetson.edu.

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I’m a rising junior at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science.  This summer, I’m working under Dr. Guo-Jun Qi on the research of generative adversarial nets within the field of machine learning. Specifically, we are looking at Loss-Sensitive GANs, which work to more effectively and efficiently discern, through the discriminative model, between “real” data inputs and “fake” data generated by the generative model during the training process. The loss-sensitivity factor adds precision to the GAN in that it helps prevent more accurate generated data from being categorized as negative by the discriminator, and impacting the learning process.

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I am a rising junior at Stetson University, pursing a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Digital Arts. This summer, I am working on creating a mobile application called “Carebitter” that uses the Fitbit API to authenticate a Fitbit user on another mobile users’ phone so that he or she can have access to various levels of the Fitbit user’s health information. The use of this application is to aid in studying the sharing behaviors of individuals when it comes to their health data and whom they are sharing it with, under the specific context of caregiving. If you have any questions, you can reach me at kchen@stetson.edu.

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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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