Seminars & Workshops

Contact

Dr. Rose Shumba
301-860-4446
rshumba@bowiestate.edu

Spring 2024

Facinating Realm of Quantum Computing

April 12th, 2024 : 1:30 - 5:15 PM

Dr. Weiwen Jiang joined Mason in 2021. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD from Chongqing University in 2019. From 2017 to 2019, he conducted research at the University of Pittsburgh and was co-advised by the professor there for his PhD thesis. He works on hardware and software co-design; in particular, the co-design of neural networks and different hardware accelerators, including mobile devices, FPGA, and ASIC. His recent work brings the co-design philosophy to quantum computing and demonstrates that quantum advantage can be achieved for the neural network for the first time.

Jiang’s research works have been published in prestigious journals and conferences, including Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions, DAC, ICCAD, and ESWEEK. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award in ICCD’17 and Best Paper Nominations in DAC'19, CODES+ISSS'19, ASP-DAC'16, and ASP-DAC'20. In addition, he works closely not only with academic societies (such as Notre Dame, UPITT, Northeastern, Rice, and UConn) but also with industries (such as IBM, Xilinx, Facebook, and Edgecortix).

This workshop will be held in person. In the CS building conference room [room #210].

See Yourself in Federal Cyber: Unlocking the Federal Hiring Process to Get you Hired!

Febuaray 23rd, 2024 : 10am

Ms. Nikkia Henderson is a 14 year tenured federal government employee. I In her current role she is a Senior Advisor at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She serves a Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Strategy and Governance Program lead, within CISA’s Cybersecurity Division. Previously, Ms. Henderson was a National Account Manager and Supply Chain Risk Manager Champion at the General Services Administration where she advised Federal, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial stakeholders increased the awareness of cybersecurity within procurement and acquisitions.

Nikkia is a charismatic, energetic, public speaker and DEIA advocate. She is always volunteering to help and excels in art of connecting humans to humans. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration/Finance from Strayer University, and a Master’s Degree in Cyber Policy from University of Maryland Global College. Nikkia Henderson is also the President of the Women in Cybersecurity Mid Atlantic Affiliate, where she serves as a "cybHERprenuer" who is passionate about helping cybersecurity professionals define their vision, mission, and federal career path.

She welcomes connections via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkiahenderson/

Zoom details: Meeting ID: 873 5660 1175 Passcode: 354065

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Exploring Vulnerabilities and Consequences of Apple's Find My Protocol

Febuaray 23rd, 2024 : 2pm - 4pm

In 2020, Apple rolled out its Find My system, a decentralized protocol that allows devices without an internet connection to crowdsource their location and report it back to their owner. Initially piloted on iPhones, it now allows any Apple device (Airtags, iPads, Macbooks, Airpods, etc.) to be located quickly and efficiently using only Bluetooth messaging. Building on previous technology from competitors like Tile, the Find My protocol has a lost device broadcast a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) advertisement message that can be picked up by nearby internet-connected Apple devices and relayed back to the owner via Apple's servers, all without any interaction from these devices' owners. Unlike Tile, Apple's Find My protocol includes novel end-to-end encryption of location data which guarantees that Apple themselves does not know where the lost devices are or who they belong to. By reverse engineering this protocol, we have identified several vulnerabilities in the Find My protocol. Primarily, we are able to create our own devices that can participate in the Find My network and be freely tracked using the hundreds of millions of internet-connected Apple devices around the world. Unlike Apple's Airtags, which only report their most recent location in the app, with our custom devices we can retrieve each individual location report giving us access to fine-grained location data over days or weeks. Our devices are also immune to Apple's "product safety alerts," a feature that was added to iOS to warn users when an Airtag is being used to surreptitiously track them. This leads to a low-cost, extremely effective stealth tracking device around the size of a quarter, that provides detailed location data in nearly any environment for up to a year on a single battery. In addition, we have been able to use our devices to explore the capabilities and weaknesses of the Find My network. We have identified several additional flaws in the implementation of the Find My software that can allow an attacker to clone a device, block a device from reporting its location, or even inject false location data to mislead the owner.

Team meeting details: Meeting ID: 242 992 346 26 Passcode: : kr5hEy

Security Overview & Background Investigations

Febuaray 23rd, 2024 : 3pm

NSA’s Security Office will go over the NSA security process/timeline and the Top Secrete Security Clearance process.

Team meeting details: Meeting ID: 242 992 346 26 Passcode: : kr5hEy

Academic Accountability: Holding Yourself and Academia Accountable

Febuaray 16th, 2024 : 12pm - 2pm

Donnetta “Dee-Dee” Padmore is a current Doctoral Student at Bowie State University. She also obtained her Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Bioinformatics at BSU. Before her current career, she was a Hospital Corpsman 2^nd Class in the United States Navy, with nine years of service. She now has over 7 years in the access control industry, working with JSON, SQL, and RESTful APIs. She works for the private organization Datawatch Systems, Inc. as a Senior Business Development Analysis, where she helps launch internal organizational mobile apps, partners with 3^rd party app vendors to help launch their access control/tenant experience apps, as well as review, test, and document APIs. Currently she is working on an Apple Wallet integration in conjunction with Mindgrub, HID, and Apple, which will allow for a mobile credential to be pushed to the Wallet, and used on HID readers for access control.

Zoom details: Meeting ID: 819 6085 0151 Passcode: 692845

Building Your Business with the Business Model Canvas

Febuaray 9th, 2024 : 10am - 12pm

Tyrome ‘Ty’ Smith, has over 25 years of consulting and leading executives and their teams by helping them understand human and organizational dynamics. Currently, he is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Common Mission Project, whose mission is to create an international network of entrepreneurs driven to solve the critical challenges of our time. Before that, he was a senior consultant to the Department of Defense (DoD). As a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders and teams, he has conducted many senior-level engagements with the expressed intention of eliciting a strategic focus on revolutionizing how value is both conceptualized and executed. As part of his work, He developed an innovative education program for the DoD; including coaching and mentoring product development teams engaged in an internal incubator. In addition, has been providing support to several organizations either as faculty or entrepreneur-in-residence. They include the University of Maryland Innovation Extension Program., StreetCode Academy, and Digital Undivided - the last two are dedicated to supporting founders of Color. He is a much sought-after workshop presenter for topics ranging from unconscious bias to business model innovation.

Zoom details: Meeting ID: 860 6945 8581 Passcode: 901305

Fall 2023

Transformative Innovations in IBM HPC Design

Friday, December 15th, 2023 : 10am - 12pm

Dr. Appolo Tankeh will talk about IBM HPC(High Performance Computing), and reflect on some of the innovations in the design and development. The IBM HPC team came out with a radically new approach to problems of optimizing the performance of HPC systems. These new features were implemented in the Software[Linux] and hardware layers that improve the system performance of IBM HPC drastically.

These methods were used in many generation of Super Computers, including ASCI Purple and Blue_Gene. He will give an overview of the Architecture, and the impact it has on: MPI performance, IBM Competitiveness in the server business, Open source movement, Cloud computing, AI, etc.

Information on Dr. Appolo Tankeh:

Dr. Appolo Tankeh is a Professor in the Computer Science department at the Bowie State University. He has previous experience as a university lecturer and adjunct professor at universities in London, State of New York and Martyland. He held a number of US patents in HPC (High Performance Computing). His current research areas are blockchain, Web3 programming, Docker/Container based systems, Cloud computing, High Performance Computing, message passing, File systems, operating systems and networks. This also include topics in concurrency, databases, computer/processor architecture, distributed systems, programming languages, compilers, Browsers, algorithms, AI, Dynamical systems, Markov Chains, Quantum Computing, Statistics and Probability theory.

This workshop will be held via zoom.

Zoom Details:

Meeting ID: 845 7374 7237

Passcode: 321112

Machine Learning in business: building a recommendation engine

Friday, November 10th, 2023 : 10am - 12pm

Dr. Kashif is a physicist by training. He did his undergraduate studies in Yale University, his PhD in Harvard University, and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). As a member of the ATLAS collaboration in CERN, he contributed to the search and discovery of the Higgs boson, which resulted in the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013. Dr. Kashif currently heads the Machine Learning (ML) function in Cvent, innovating applications of ML and AI in the events space.