Student Success

A collection of 52 posts

Student Success Featured

2025 DoE CyberForce competition

We had two teams (11 students) participate in the 2025 Department of Energy CyberForce competition. The goal of the competition is for each team to secure a simulated oil rig against a live team of attackers and keep the system operational and usable.

Student Success

7968 x WiCyS LUC Baby Breach CTF

A baby has been kidnapped—or at least, that was the mystery Loyola students were tasked with solving during the Baby Breach CTF, hosted on November 7 by 7968 and WiCyS LUC. The creative, cybersecurity-themed event challenged student teams to work through digital clues, exploit vulnerabilities, and analyze evidence to

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Grace Hopper Celebration: LUC Students Connect

A group of Loyola University Chicago students, including Lynette Lim and Blake Doan, represented the University at the 2025 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC)—the world’s largest gathering of women and nonbinary technologists.

Faculty Success

Toward Experiential Training Program for AI Security and Privacy Practitioners

Mohammed Abuhamad, Mujtaba Nazari, Loretta Stalans, and Eric Chan-Tin presented their paper, “Toward Experiential Training Program for AI Security and Privacy Practitioners,” at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) in November in Seattle.

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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WiCyS x WiCS Career Launchpad

The Career Launchpad event on October 16, hosted by the student chapters of Women in Cybersecurity and Women in Computer Science, was a success with over 50 student attendees and over 15 industry professionals (most of them alumni).

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Loyola Students Share Research at Midwestern Criminal Justice Meeting

Lauren Flanagan and Trevor Rowe present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

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Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

Congrats to the Ramblers team, consisting of Lynette Lim, Lucia Garr, Daniel Gaevskiy, and Josh Honig, for participating in the New York Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge.

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Loyola University Chicago Teams Earn Spots in UND CyberHawks Finals

Congrats to all three Loyola University Chicago student teams who qualified for the UND Cyberhawks finals.

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Meet the New WiCyS Student Chapter Board for AY2025–2026!

Meet the New WiCyS Student Chapter Board for AY2025–2026!

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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.

Presentations

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.