Faculty Success

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Presentations Featured

BullyBlocker Team Showcases Cyberbullying Research at SBP-BRiMS 2025

Loyola University Chicago’s BullyBlocker team took center stage at the 2025 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)

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Loyola’s Dr. Dligach Co-Leads $1M AI Project to Simplify Clinical Trial Consent

Loyola’s Dr. Dligach Co-Leads $1M AI Project to Simplify Clinical Trial Consent.

Grants Featured

Loyola Awarded $30K Motorola Grant for Cybersecurity Scholars

Loyola Awarded $30K Motorola Grant for Cybersecurity Scholars

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1 Million in Linked NSF Grants to Support the BullyBlocker Project

The grant proposal Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Toward Well-being by Design in Social Media, led by Dr. Yas Silva, has received funding from NSF.

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Loyola Joins National $298K NSF Project to Expand AI Education

Loyola Joins National $298K NSF Project to Expand AI Education

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Dr. Yas Silva Receives 2025 Sujack Award for Research Excellence

Dr. Yas Silva Receives 2025 Sujack Award for Research Excellence

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CRA Leadership Academy

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin, Founding Director of the Loyola Center for Cybersecurity and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, was accepted to participate in the 2025 CRA Leadership Academy.

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Dr. Eric Chan-Tin Named 2024-2026 Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellow

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin Named 2024-2026 Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellow

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Welcoming Dr. Satyaki Sikdar to the Department of Computer Science

We are excited to welcome Dr. Satyaki Sikdar as a new faculty member in the Department of Computer Science this Fall semester (2024).

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New NSF Grant: Exploring The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in Enabling Energy-Efficient Data Center Software Infrastructure

The CS Department Chair, Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal, has received an EAGER award from the National Science Foundation’s Clean Energy Technology initiative.

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Collaborative research work on adversarial machine learning between SKKU and LUC awarded the best paper award in SVCC’24

A paper titled "Unmasking the Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning Models: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses" has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 5th Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC) 2024.

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Dr. Chan-Tin Inspires Audience as Vision Voice Speaker at CISO Chicago Think Tank

Dr. Chan-Tin, the Director of Loyola's Center for Cybersecurity, took the stage as a distinguished Vision Voice speaker at the CISO Chicago Think Tank.

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Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight

Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight

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Welcoming Dr. TaiNing Wang: A New Addition to the Department of Computer Science

Accomplished Researcher and Dedicated Educator Joins the Faculty

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Google Research Award to Support the BullyBlocker Project

The research proposal "Toward Safer Online Experiences for LGBTQ+ Communities" submitted by Yas Silva in collaboration with Deborah Hall from Arizona State University, was selected to receive a Google research grant.

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NSF Grant to Support BullyBlocker Project at LUC

The core objective of this interdisciplinary project is to design and develop models and apps to prevent and identify instances of cyberbullying in social networks.

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Official Designation Ceremony for the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

On June 8, 2022 at the NICE conference in Atlanta, Loyola University Chicago was officially recognized as having been designated as a DHS/NSA National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

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CS faculty member Konstantin Läufer named a Top Finalist for the 2021 Alice B. Hayes Award for Advising and Mentoring

CS faculty member Konstantin Läufer named a Top Finalist for the 2021 Alice B. Hayes Award for Advising and Mentoring.

Student Success Featured

Department Welcomes Visiting Scholars from Seoul National University

As part of our ongoing commitment to research collaboration and international dialogue with researchers from around the world, we welcome Prof. Paek, and his students, Hyunjun Kim, Woorim Han, and Yungi Cho, who joined us for joint research work with Prof. Abuhamad.

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Automation in Telecom: Improving Performance and Customer Satisfaction

In this webinar, Guy Bevente (AT&T Prior IT Executive, Founder BevTek, Loyola Instructor) discusses how Telecommunication companies are automating to improve performance and increase customer satisfaction. YouTube Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsMa9SLDZo

Grants

Research Grant: Realistic and Practical Website Fingerprinting

Website fingerprinting attacks can predict the website visited by a user with an accuracy of over 90%.

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Research Grant: Teaching Basic Cybersecurity to All

Eric Chan-Tin. “Teaching Basic Cybersecurity to All”, U.S. Department of Defense, $31,023, September 13, 2021 – December 31, 2022.

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API Led Integration Webinar with Loyola Computer Science Instructor, Guy Bevente

Loyola instructor, Guy Bevente, discusses the importance of leveraging APIs in today's computing ecosystem.

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Low-Power Computer Vision: Improve the Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence Book Release

Computer Science faculty member, George Thiruvathukal, has teamed up with colleagues to edit new book on Low-Power Computer Vision available for purchase on February 23, 2022.

Grants

New NSF Grant: Cyber Infrastructure to Enable Computer Vision Applications at the Edge Using Automated Contextual Analysis

George K. Thiruvathukal receives $175,000 NSF grant to advance computer vision and software engineering practices on low-power edge devices and benefit society.