Cybersecurity Competitions
2024
- A team of our undergrad Computer Science students (, , Adrian Panezic, , , ) will be representing 吃瓜网 at the (Nov. 2024). Their participation is made possible by generous sponsorship from Alias Cybersecurity, John Ansbach, and 吃瓜网allas.
- 吃瓜网allas students participated in the first ever AI Hackathon sponsored by Intelligage, AI in Texas, and several other companies. Two teams of students participated and earned both 1st and 2nd place over a total of 17 entries from students at 吃瓜网, UTD, and UNT. an MS Business Analytics student, took home 1st place for her AI agent that screens young children for depression according to the PHQ-9 questionnaire. A team of undergrad Computer Science students (, , , Simon Turner, Kenneth Eze) received 2nd place for their AI travel agent.
2023
- A team of our undergrad Computer Science students (, , , and ) represented 吃瓜网 at the (Nov. 2023). The competition day consisted of 8 hours of Capture The Flag challenges, security breach analysis, and system defense tactics. Out of over 100 teams from universities across the nation, our students placed 43rd overall (beating teams from UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech, among others).
2022
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A team of 吃瓜网 MS in Cybersecurity (, , , and ) participated in the Inspira Threat Prototype Competition, and came in 2nd place overall. The students created a demonstration for AI-Deceiving to highlight the ethical concerns in AI usage.
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Six students from the MS in Cybersecurity program participated in the Department of Energy鈥檚 on November 4th and 5th. The focus of this competition is defending U.S. Energy Infrastructure. These students are (team captain), , , , and . In the lead up to the competition, the team had to analyze the competition infrastructure and point out flaws and fix issues, while also working on the documentation for the competition. On the day of the competition, the team had to defend the infrastructure in the capacity of a blue team against active and passive attacks launched by the red team. The 吃瓜网 team called, the Cyber Crusaders came in at 109 out of a total of 144 participating teams. Commendably, the team placed at rank 74 out of all 144 teams in anomaly detection and resolution. The CyberCrusaders team participated while preparing for the end of semester deliverables, which required significant time management skills.
2021
- A 吃瓜网 team of 4 MS students (, , , ) competed in the 2021 . Testing competition.