News

Recent grants, appointments, talks, and lab milestones.

• March 2026 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Cyber Games team that I mentor recently won first place in the regional competition of the 2026 NCAE Cyber Games. The team beat out 11 other teams in the Northeast 2 division and earned the highest overall score of all 140 teams across the U.S. News article: Read more
• February 2026 I am organizing the Workshop on Dependable and Secure Autonomous Systems at DSN 2026 conference. Read more
• Jul 2024 NSF supplement Building Blocks of Microprocessors: Simulations, Labs and Citizen Science for Inclusive STEM Learning awarded $241k for one year. Leading PI.
• Jun 2024 Resilience Engineering of Machine Learning-enabled Open World Recognition renewed for $247k by the U.S. Department of the Army — bringing the project total to $546k over three years.
• Nov 2023 Appointed VLDB Reproducibility Co-Chair.
• Jul 2023 DoA Open World Recognition project renewed ($148k, PI).
• Dec 2022 NSF proposal Accelerating Cybersecurity Education, Scholarship and Service funded. Serving as co-PI.
• Aug 2022 DoA proposal Resilience Engineering of Machine Learning-enabled Open World Recognition funded for $149,903. PI; Dr. Lance Fiondella co-PI.
• Aug 2022 UMassD team's proposal Intelligent Industrial Robotics and Cyber Security Test Bed funded for $500,000 by the Massachusetts 2023 Skills Capital Grant Program. Serving as co-PI.