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CYSE-SDC-1: 1st Cyber Security Engineering Department Senior Design Competition
Fairfax, VA, United States, April 28, 2026
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cysesdc1
Abstract registration deadlineApril 17, 2026
Submission deadlineApril 17, 2026

Paper submission: 

  • Each team only need one student to register an account. When submitting the paper, list all group members as the author, including your mentor. 
  • Only the final paper should be submitted here. PPT, Poster, and brochure should be submitted in Canvas. 

 

Schedule:Schedule:

Location: The Hub, 10423 Rivanna River Way Fairfax, VA 22030

 

Time:

  • Morning Track: 9:30 - 12:00
  • Afternoon Track: 1:30 - 4:00
  • Dinner/celebration: 5:00 - 7:00

 

Tracks:

  • Morning Track: 9:30 - 12:00
    • VIP Room I: GenAI / LLM Security, Safety & Secure AI Engineering
    • VIP Room II: AI‑Enabled Vulnerability Research, Reverse Engineering & Offensive Testing
    • Hub Meeting Room 1: Threat Intelligence, OSINT & Knowledge/Data Fusion
    • Hub Meeting Room 2: Security Operations Enablement: Visibility, IR Readiness & Threat Hunting
  •  Afternoon Track: 1:30 - 4:00
    • VIP Room II: Trust, Identity, Authorization & Anti‑Abuse
    • Hub Meeting Room 1: Cyber‑Physical / Embedded / Automotive / OT & Robotics Security
    • Hub Meeting Room 2: SCENT: SCenario -> Entity -> Network -> Threat

Presentation:

  • Each team has 30 minutes for the presentation, and should prepare a presentation about 22-24 minutes, leaving 6-8 minutes for judge questions. All group members must present. Please rehearse with your mentor and sponsor before the event. 

 

Projects-tracks assignment, presentation will follow the order as listed in the table:

Project Sponsor  Project title Track
4 BlueCloak AetherCoder AI‑Enabled Vulnerability Research, Reverse Engineering & Offensive Testing
14 CYSE-Arafin-4 GLeNN2.0 AI‑Enabled Vulnerability Research, Reverse Engineering & Offensive Testing
19 AVINT Adaptive Risk Enumeration of Uncatalogued vulnerabilities using Deep Learning Techniques AI‑Enabled Vulnerability Research, Reverse Engineering & Offensive Testing
22 CYSE-Wang Agentic AI Penetration Testing Framework AI‑Enabled Vulnerability Research, Reverse Engineering & Offensive Testing
       
12 CYSE-Arafin-2 Accelerating Towers over Binary Fields for Secure Robotics Cyber‑Physical / Embedded / Automotive / OT & Robotics Security
13 CYSE-Arafin-3 Snoopy STARFish Cyber‑Physical / Embedded / Automotive / OT & Robotics Security
15 CYSE-Arafin-5 Securing EdgeRobots in Dynamic Environments Cyber‑Physical / Embedded / Automotive / OT & Robotics Security
17 CYSE-Ferrari Using industrial automation equipment for cybersecurity learning Project Cyber‑Physical / Embedded / Automotive / OT & Robotics Security
       
1 UMW Use of Vector Database Methods to Fine Tune Large Language Models  GenAI / LLM Security, Safety & Secure AI Engineering
5 MITRE-1 AI Security Analysis Team A GenAI / LLM Security, Safety & Secure AI Engineering
6 MITRE-2 AI Security Analysis Team Z GenAI / LLM Security, Safety & Secure AI Engineering
11 CYSE-Arafin-1 Agent Overfit Insecure Embodied LLM Agents GenAI / LLM Security, Safety & Secure AI Engineering
       
7 Veritus Labs-1 AI Enhanced Asset & Network Topology Builder SCENT: SCenario -> Entity -> Network -> Threat
8 Veritus Labs-2 AI Enhanced Incident Tabletop Scenario Generator SCENT: SCenario -> Entity -> Network -> Threat
9 Veritus Labs-3 AI Automated Adversary Modeling Diamond SCENT: SCenario -> Entity -> Network -> Threat
10 Veritus Labs-4 AI Based Network Node Simulation for Cyber Exercises SCENT: SCenario -> Entity -> Network -> Threat
       
18 CYSE-Barreto Cyber ARGUS Testbed Security Operations Enablement: Visibility, IR Readiness & Threat Hunting
25 CGI-1 AI Based Role Authorization Prototype Security Operations Enablement: Visibility, IR Readiness & Threat Hunting
26 CGI-2 Containerized DevSecOps Solution Security Operations Enablement: Visibility, IR Readiness & Threat Hunting
27 CGI-3 Standardized Threat Hunting and Automation Security Operations Enablement: Visibility, IR Readiness & Threat Hunting
       
2 Hilton OSINT Exercise with Curated RECON Tool Threat Intelligence, OSINT & Knowledge/Data Fusion
20 AVINT ML NLP based Threat Intel Gathering Threat Intelligence, OSINT & Knowledge/Data Fusion
21 Cypfer OpenCTI for Aggregation  Correlation and Analysis of Threat Intelligence Feeds Threat Intelligence, OSINT & Knowledge/Data Fusion
28 Ram Master Data Management Threat Intelligence, OSINT & Knowledge/Data Fusion
       
3 LabsDAO TrustChain Cyber Secure Tokenization of Real World Assets Prototype Trust, Identity, Authorization & Anti‑Abuse
16 CYSE-Moiunl- Radio Frequency Based Fingerprinting Trust, Identity, Authorization & Anti‑Abuse
23 CYSE-Wei Invisible CAPTCHA blue team Trust, Identity, Authorization & Anti‑Abuse
24 CYSE-Wei Invisible CAPTCHA red team Trust, Identity, Authorization & Anti‑Abuse
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