Ju-Yeon Jo and Yoohwan Kim (both Computer Science) have received a seventh year of funding for the UNLV GenCyber Camp sponsored jointly by the National Security Agency and National Science Foundation. GenCyber Camp is a hands-on cybersecurity summer camp for high school and middle school students in Southern Nevada with the goals of helping…

Graduate student Simon Matin (Physics and Astronomy) was recently awarded a fellowship as part of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship program. This award recognizes Matin's accomplishments thus far and the strength of his proposed ongoing research work. The specific proposed project will simulate measurements of galaxies made with the…

Bianca Ionescu, Christian Rodriguez, Arturo Roman, and Ashley Hernandez (all Information Systems and UNLV Cyber Clinic), had the opportunity to meet with The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) while they were in town for multiple cybersecurity/hacker conferences taking place in Las Vegas. They joined additional UNLV Cyber…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) published an article, "A Collapsing Academy: Internal and External Threat Vectors Facing Higher Education," in IEEE Computer. In this article Berghel discusses a few of today's most pressing internal and external threats to higher education including plagiarism, research misconduct, questionable authorship…

The UNLV Cyber Clinic received a notable mention during a congressional hearing and in an Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) report.  The White House ONCD published a report outlining the progress they have made and the work to come implementing the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES). Facing a large workforce…

Gabe Berrios (Computer Science), Kaitlin Chan (Computer Science), Carlos Dye (Computer Science; Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), Victor Fearn (Computer Science), Mitchelle Gonzalez (Computer Science), Leo Menchaca (Computer Science), and Amy Wong (Computer Science) were all appointed to the role of intern with UNLV’s Cyber Clinic.…

Professor Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) and Mehdi Abid (Computer Science) presented “Working with Cyber Clinic Clients” at the Workshop on Building a Sustainable Cybersecurity Clinic in Higher Education.  UNLV’s Cyber Clinic is an active member of The Consortium, a network of academic institutions that collaborate to expand…

Euiseong Ko (Computer Science), Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences), and Mingon Kang (Computer Science) published original research titled "SPIN: sex-specific and pathway-based interpretable neural network for sexual dimorphism analysis" in Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 9.5). The study proposes a new deep learning-based unified framework,…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "Social Media, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Social Disruption," in the current issue of IEEE Computer.  Berghel offers an explanation of how social media created an existential crisis for society.

Professor Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "Generative Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Entropy, and the Big Sort," in the January 2024 issue of IEEE Computer. In this article, Berghel advances the argument that while artificial intelligence (AI) presents several threats to society, the threat that generative AI…

Avinash Yaganapu and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published original research titled, "Multi-layered Self-attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation," in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (IF: 4.5). This study proposed a new strategy that incorporates multi-layered self-attentions to enhance pseudo pixel-level…

Sai Kosaraju and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published internationally collaborative research titled, "Evidential deep learning for trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission number," in Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 9.5). This is a product of the four-year long project in collaboration with Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) and…