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• (April 30th, 2020) I was recognized as "Best Faculty" by the International Student Community of Florida Tech.

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• (April 20th, 2020) My students in our FITSec Cyber Security Club placed 9th overall (out of 936) at the National Cyber League tournament.

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• (April 6th, 2020) My student, Josh Connolly, just placed 3rd in his division (out of 1,536) at the National Cyber League tournament. 

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• (March 31st, 2020) My student, Blake Janes, was just paid a bug bounty of $3,133.70 by Google for disclosing the bug identified in our work.

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• (March 4th, 2020) My student, Blake Janes, had our paper: "Never Ending Story: Authentication and Access Control Design Flaws in Shared IoT Devices" accepted for publication at the IEEE SafeThings Workshop. 

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• (March 1st, 2020) My students in our FITSec Cybersecurity club took 2nd Place (out of 25 teams) at the B-Sides Tampa Capture the Flag Competition. 

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• (February 1st, 2020) I've been asked to serve on the SCYTHE Advisory Council to aid SCYTHE as they release an innovative new product in threat emulation. 

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• (January 27 2020) My student, Micah Oltmann, has been selected for a student scholarship to attend the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference.

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• (January 2020)  I've been selected to serve on the CSET '20 USENIX program committee. 

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• (January 2020) I've been asked to co-chair our The Human Element in Autonomous Cyber Security conference at Florida Tech.

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• (January 10, 2020) My students put together a site for our FITSec Cybersecurity club.

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• (November 21, 2019) I represented Florida Tech at the CAE Community Cyber Security Symposium in Phoenix, AZ.

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• (November 16, 2019) My students in our FITSec Cyber Security Club served as Red Team for the DoE CyberForce Competition at Argonne National Laboratory.

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• (November 1, 2019) My students in our FITSec Cyber Security Club participated in the HiveStorm competition. 

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• (October 26, 2019) My students in our FITSec Cyber Security Club competed in the Florida Cyber Capture the Flag event.

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• (October 19, 2019) I attended the Raymond James Capture the Flag competition with our Florida Tech FITSec security club. 

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• (October 12, 2019) I attended the Southeast regional round of the Collegiate Penetration Test Competition held at the Georgia Cyber Center, where our Florida Tech FITSec security club competed. 

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• (September 26, 2019) I attended the invitation-only New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) in San Carlos, Costa Rica. 

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• (September 13, 2019) I represented Florida Tech at the 2019 Southeast CAE Cyber Security Forum in Pensacola, FL. 

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• (August 15, 2019) I joined the team at Florida Tech where I will serve as the Graduate Program Chair for our Information Assurance And Cybersecurity program and an assistant professor in the Computer Engineering and Sciences Department. 

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• (May 17, 2019) Our paper, "Blinded and Confused: Uncovering Systemic Flaws in Device Telemetry for Smart-Home Internet of Things" was selected as Best Paper for WiSec 2019.

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• (May 10, 2019) I graduated after defending my Ph.D. dissertation, "Network Access Control through Host and Application Analysis" under the direction of Dr. Will Enck in the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Lab at NC State University.

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• (May 2, 2019) NC State University published a press release about our smart-home sensor blinding work.  

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