Projects

This research focuses on creating new ways to identify previously unseen attacks in a more targeted fashion. My current work in this area is focused on improving our ability to detect new attacks faster and more reliably.

Jun 13, 2024

Cultivating a Culture of Inclusion: Women Thriving in STEM (IgniteHer) is an Central Next Generation Grant funded effort. The Women Thriving in STEM project seeks to address the underrepresentation of women in STEM disciplines while fostering a sense of belonging and community among women students pursuing these fields. By focusing on increasing the representation and success of women in STEM, the project aims to contribute to a more diverse and inclusive campus environment that values and supports the participation of women in traditionally male-dominated fields. At its core, the project aims to achieve two primary goals: first, to enhance the recruitment and retention of women in STEM programs, and second, to cultivate a supportive community where female students feel empowered to pursue their academic and professional aspirations in STEM. Through targeted initiatives and programming, the project will create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women in STEM, ultimately leading to greater representation and success in these disciplines.

Jun 13, 2024

Scaffolded Projects for the Social Good (SPSG) is an NSF-funded collaboration between Central Connecticut State University and Xavier University. The project goal is to develop resources to assist computer science faculty who wish to embed **community-based service-learning projects** into their curriculum. While not specific to our recommendations, we focus on projects and project partners (e.g. local non-profits) that illustrate **computing’s potential for positive social impact.** See the [SPSG Hub](https://spsg-hub.github.io/) for more information and other resources.

Jun 15, 2023

This work focuses on researching what teaching methods are most effective for achieving student learning. My work in this area has looked at innovative teaching practices to address a number of aspects such as: using creativity as a tool to enhance learning; reducing the gender gap in college CS; how to make group projects better; methods to incorporate service learning into existing courses.

Jun 13, 2023

This research focuses on protecting open systems that use user input (ratings, comments, reviews, etc.) as a means of producing recommendations and how these systems that are based on subjective measures can be protected against malicious attacks designed to manipulate the recommender system output.

May 13, 2023

This research is strongly tied to computational transportation, location awareness, and artificial intelligence based geo spatially aware pattern completion. This project includes various ways an individual's activity might be determined whether through wearables, GPS location, images, etc. A secondary aspect of this is then applying large-scale data mining and machine learning of patterns of activities of individuals and using these to either help a user with time and geographically aware schedule optimization, or as a means of projecting temporal location and activity of a user for personalized recommendations. A major component of this work is how to do this in a privacy preserving way due to the potential large scale risk to privacy. Different aspects that have been part of this study have been improving machine learning for inferring from incomplete or missing data; and generative transforming applied to temporally geospatial aware activity scheduling projection for individuals and households.

Jun 13, 2008