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
Upcoming Dates and Speakers:
- Nov 28, 2025: Thanksgiving weekend
- Dec 12, 2025: Alan Sherman and Enis Golazewski, Security Analysis of the SecureDNA System