Student Success

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Ramblers Qualify for 2CDC Cyber Defense Finals

A team from Loyola University Chicago, consisting of Daniel Gaevskiy, Lynette Lim, Chloe Kilroy, Josh Honig, and Arya Aftab, participated in the 2CDC (Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) qualifiers on July 29.

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Congratulations to Josh Honig – Outstanding Cybersecurity Competition Results!

Congratulations to Josh Honig who placed 2nd at the IEEE Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference metaCTF and 1st at the AdobeCTF competitions this past June.

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Cybersecurity Talks at IEEE Conference

Josh Honig presented a peer-reviewed paper titled "Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis: To Website Fingerprinting and Beyond" and a peer-reviewed poster titled

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Celebrating Undergraduate Researchers at Loyola

Muhammad Javed, Jonah Goldberg-Finkelstein, Malec Tarabein, and Abigal Daman present their work as part of the 2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Experience (USRE).

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Sarah Sumrall Accepted into Prestigious Cyberus MS Program

Congratulations to Sarah Sumrall, BS Cybersecurity Class of 2025, on her acceptance into the highly competitive Cyberus Master’s Program, where she will be pursuing the Internet of Things (IoT) track.

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NCL Spring 2025

Loyola University Chicago ranked 45th in the Central region and 25th in the "Experienced Students" category.

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Congratulations, Loyola Student! SharkFest 2025 U.S.

We’re thrilled to announce that two of our outstanding student, Arrianna Szymczak, have been selected as the Women in Tech Scholarship winner for SharkFest 2025 U.S.—the official Wireshark Developer and User Conference!

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Chloe Kilroy and Tyler Rosario Honored for Research Impacting the Loyola Community

Chloe Kilroy and Tyler Rosario Honored for Research Impacting the Loyola Community

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Loyola University Chicago at WiCyS 2025

From April 2 to 5, 2025, several Loyola University Chicago students, along with their faculty advisor, attended the annual Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference in Texas. Representing Loyola were students Lucia Garr, Nika Primus, Anisa Ramos, Nancy Rojas, Fiona Nicdao, and Gulnaz Zholshy.

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Muhammad Khan Receives Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Muhammad Khan Receives Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

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Loyola Students Showcase Research at Undergraduate Symposium

Loyola Students Showcase Research at Undergraduate Symposium

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Cybersecurity Students Attend ChiCyberCon 2025

Cybersecurity Students Attend ChiCyberCon 2025

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NCYTE Fellowship

Congratulations to Arrianna Szymczak, BS Cybersecurity ’24 and expected MS Computer Science ’25, on being selected for the highly competitive NCYTE Fellowship. This honor recognizes Arrianna’s academic excellence and passion for cybersecurity and education.

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CS Seminar Explores AI and Cybersecurity Innovations

The CS Department hosted a CS Seminar Event on Friday, November 22nd, featuring insightful talks by Dr. Daniel Moreira and students Mr. Josh Honig and Mr. Nathan Ferrell.

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Six Students Awarded 2024-2025 Motorola Solutions Foundation Scholarship

Congratulations to Alexis Fenderson, Bridget Gorman, Kelly McCabe, Nancy Rojas, Nika Primus, and Sloan Luckie for being named the 2024-2025 Motorola Solutions Foundation Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars.

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Exploring Website Fingerprinting with Machine Learning: A Talk by Our Students, Josh Honig and Nathan Ferrell

Josh Honig and Nathan Ferrell presented a talk "Website Fingerprinting: Predicting User Behavior Based on Encrypted Metadata Using Machine Learning" at Blue Team Con on September 8, 2024.

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Manny Sandoval (CS PhD student) Presented Papers at ASONAM'24

Manny Sandoval successfully represented the BullyBlocker team at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).

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CyberRamblers: New Cohort!

CyberRamblers: New Cohort!

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Loyola University Chicago Excels in VIVID Competition

Loyola University Chicago proudly had two teams compete in the VIVID competition, held from March 11 to March 14. The event brought together talented participants from various institutions to show their skills in a challenging and creative environment. Teams * Team 1, known as "7968," includes five exceptional students:

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Loyola Students Participated in the Cyber Defense Competition

Loyola University Chicago participated in the IL/WI/MO Qualifier of the Midwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) on February 17.

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Department of Energy CyberForce Competition - Loyola ranks in top 30

A group of students, coached by Dr. Chan-Tin, participated in the Department of Energy CyberForce Competition on November 4 - November 5, 2022.

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SPARK 2022 Research Symposium

In October 2022, Julie Kim and Amita Nair presented their research "Evaluating Online Encryption Using Traffic Analysis" at the SPARK Research Symposium.

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Loyola @ Tapia 2022

Loyola University Chicago was at Tapia 2022! Kenneth Hernandez, BS Cybersecurity '23, and Muhammad Khan, BS Cybersecurity and Software Engineering '25, attended the Richard Tapia 2022 conference in Washington DC.

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Loyola Students at Grace Hopper Celebration 2022

Loyola University Chicago was at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 in Orlando Florida. Rachel Gordon, MS Data Science, and Anne Wagner, MS Computer Science '22 and BS Computer Science '21, attended the celebration from September 21 to September 23.

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Five Loyola Students Selected for 2022 Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars Program

Loyola University Chicago today announced it has received a grant for $25,000 from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, to support the Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars Program within the College of Arts and Sciences.