Accomplishments: Department of Computer Science
性视界传媒鈥檚 Rebel Recon team recently took first place in the national CISA-recognized Social Engineering Competition (SEC). The team is made up of graduate students Shanzeh Aslam, (Computer Science; Information Systems), Hareign Casaclang, (Computer Science; CyberCorps SFS Scholar), Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science; Information Systems; CyberCorps鈥
Louis Dumontet and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published a paper titled, "Plastic hydrolytic enzyme classification using explainable deep learning," in ACS Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The team developed PEPIC, an explainable AI framework that predicts plastic-degrading enzymes across 9 substrate types. By identifying "hot鈥
An Huang, Junggab Son, and Zuobin Xiong (all Computer Science) submitted a paper that was accepted as a regular paper at ICML 2026, one of the top-tier conferences in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: "Watch Your Step: Information Injection in Diffusion Models via Shadow Timestep Embedding."
Kavita Batra, Noehealani Antolin (Medicine), Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Jorge Fonseca Cacho (Computer Science) received institutional seed funding through 性视界传媒鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Research Development Area (iRDA) in AI and Big Data for their project, 鈥淩esponsible AI in Survey-Based Research: Developing an Ethical鈥
CyberCorps SFS scholars Hareign Casaclang (Computer Science) and Bianca Ionescu (Computer Science; Information Systems) recently had their research paper, "Self-Hosted Workflow Automation for AI-Based Cybersecurity Operations," published in the Spring 2026 edition of the Journal of The Colloquium. The journal is published by the Colloquium鈥
Two papers of Sai Phani Parsa, Euiseong Ko, Beomsu Baek, Sai Kosaraju, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) have been accepted at the International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2026. ISMB is widely considered the world's largest and most prestigious flagship conference in bioinformatics and鈥
Highly interdisciplinary team, Lois Suh (Medicine), Euiseong Ko (Computer Science), Beomsu Baek (Computer Science), Jiwon Yoo (Medicine), Jay J. Shen (Public Health), and Mingon Kang (Computer Science) published a paper, entitled "Examining Ethnic and Racial Variations in Opioid-related Hospitalizations Using Western U.S. Electronic Health Records鈥
Avinash Yaganapu, Sai Phani Parsa, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) published a paper, "Prediction of bacterial Cytochrome P450-compound interactions based on positive-unlabeled deep learning," in Bioinformatics.
Many biological interaction datasets (e.g., protein-compound interactions) suffer from a fundamental problem: we often only鈥
Dillon Davidson, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science) had their paper accepted, titled 鈥淕PU Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for End-to-End Logistic Regression,鈥 at the 22nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (acceptance rate: 29.1%).
Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (University Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their student researchers, have published 鈥淧redicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: A Scoping Review鈥 in Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine. The study highlights the growing鈥
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the March 2026 issue of IEEE Computer entitled "From Trolls to Edgelords: The Use of Social Media to Support Extreme Ideology" that focuses on sinister, anti-social use of social media platforms to support extremism. Summary data provided by federal law enforcement agencies, the鈥
A paper authored by Daniel Ogenrwot and John Businge (Computer Science) titled: "How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests" has been accepted in the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). MSR is the top-ranked venue for software evolution and repository鈥