The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab usually meets biweekly on Fridays from 12 to 1 p.m., when classes are in session.
All meetings will be remote via WebEx: umbc.webex.com/meet/sherman and are open to the public; anyone may attend. During each meeting, a CDL student, faculty member, or special guest will present on a current research project of theirs.
Uncovering Insecure Designs of Cellular Emergency Services (911)
Yiwen Hu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
CSEE Department
UMBC
Joint work with Dr. Guan-Hua Tu (MSU) and Dr. Chunyi Peng (Purdue)
Friday, September 5, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
International Alliances in Cyber Conflict: An Attack Against All?
Gregory H. Winger
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
UMBC
Joint work with: Miguel Alberto Gomez
Friday, September 19, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Self-Defending Ledgers: Automating Distributed Ledger Security Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory
Md Tariqul Islam ‘Pavel’
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
Department of Information Systems
UMBC
Friday, October 3, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Applications of Quantum Computing and Optimization in Cybersecurity
Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi
Assistant Professor
Math/Stat Department
UMBC
Joint work with Zeguan Wu, Brandon Augustino, Tamás Terlaky, and Giacomo Nannicini
Friday, October 17, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
String Matching by Humans through Simultaneous Presentation
Alan T. Sherman
Professor of Computer Science
CSEE Department, UMBC
Joint work with Enka Blanchard [1], Ted Selker [2], Ryan Robucci [3], Levi Gabasova [4], and Mehdi Bouhamidi [1]:
[1] LAMIH, Univ. Polytech. Hauts-de-France, [2] Selker Design Research, [3] UMBC, [4] Independent scholar, Paris.
Friday, October 31, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Quantum Randomness: A Geometric Approach
Fabio Anza
Department of Physics
UMBC
Friday, November 14, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Analysis of the Security Design, Engineering, and Implementation of the SecureDNA System
Alan T. Sherman (Professor), Enis Golszewski (Teaching Assistant Professor),
and Jeremy J. Romanik Romano (MS student in computer science)
CSEE Department
UMBC
Joint work with Edward Zieglar (NSA), Jonathan D. Fuchs (UMBC), and William E. Byrd (Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Friday, December 12, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Upcoming Dates and Speakers:
- January 12-16, 2026, SFS Winter Research Study
- Biweekly CDL talks will resume in Spring 2026