Student Success

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Student Success

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.

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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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CAE-NCX Competition

Loyola competed in the CAE-NCX competition. After this 3-day cybersecurity competition with five modules, Loyola ranked 1st in the Software Development module!

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NCL Spring 2022 Season

Loyola University Chicago participated in the National Cyber League Spring 2022 season.

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2022 Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

Congratulations to Madeline Moran for being recognized as a 2022 recipient of the Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.

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Computer Science Department 2022 Award Recipients

On behalf of the Department of Computer Science, its students, staff, and faculty, we would like to congratulate all of you who completed your graduate degrees this year!

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Loyola Students at WiCyS 2022

Madeline Moran and Eliora Horst attended the Women in Cybersecurity 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Members of Department Software and Systems Lab Present at ACM HotMobile 2022

In early March, some members of the Loyola Computer Science Software and Systems Laboratory presented their recent works at the ACM HotMobile 2022 Conference.

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NCAE Cyber Games 2022

A team from Loyola University Chicago participated in the NCAE Cyber Games - Midwest Regionals on Saturday February 19.

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Daisy Reyes Receives Honorable Mention for CRA Undergraduate Research Awards

Congratulations to Daisy Reyes for receiving an Honorable Mention for the 2022 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!

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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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Loyola Cybersecurity Students Rank in National Cyber League Power Rankings!

The National Cyber League Power Rankings for Fall 2021 are out! Loyola University Chicago ranked 46th overall, 15th in the Central Region, and 30th in CAE schools. In the Team game, we ranked 91st out of 3910 teams.

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2021 Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

Congratulations to Anna Bakas for being recognized as a 2021 recipient of the Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.