Cybersecurity, healthcare innovation take center stage at KSU Symposium

KENNESAW, Ga. | Nov 26, 2024

The 肉肉传媒 Office of Undergraduate Research hosted the Fall Symposium of Student Scholars November 20-22, 2024 on the Marietta campus, featuring 235 projects.

The Symposium occurs twice a year to offer both undergraduate and graduate researchers the opportunity to showcase their work to different audiences of various disciplines. 

鈥淭he Fall 2024 Symposium was an overwhelming success,鈥 said Director of Undergraduate Research Amy Buddie. 鈥淭he students and their mentors should be proud; the presentations are professional, and the work is high caliber.鈥

Fall 2024 Symposium

The top undergraduate presentation was awarded to Anh Duong and John Oakley for their project: "Promoting Inclusion in Cybersecurity and Empowering the Next Generation: Lessons from KSU's GenCyber Camp." 

In 2023, 肉肉传媒 hosted its first GenCyber student camp, a National Security Agency and National Science Foundation-sponsored program aimed at promoting diversity in cybersecurity by providing underrepresented high school students with exposure to cybersecurity and cyber-related degree programs and KSU and other schools..

El Arbi Belfarsi received the top presentation in the graduate division for "An Algorithmic Approach for Optimizing Blood Transactions in Regions with Scarce Donation Rates." 

This study worked on a software solution designed to optimize blood management systems in regions with low donation rates, using a user-friendly application and a NoSQL Cassandra database to efficiently manage blood resources, track expiration dates, and match donors with donation centers.

Click here to see a full list of past winners.

view the symposium program

Fall 2024 Symposium Of Student Scholars Winners

  • "Promoting Inclusion in Cybersecurity and Empowering the Next Generation: Lessons from KSU's GenCyber Camp"

    Undergraduate Students: Anh Duong & John Oakley

    Research Mentors: Maria Valero & Mia Plachkinova

  • "Experimental Analysis of Vibration Mitigation in a Composite Building Prototype Using Fluid Viscous Dampers, Phase I"

    Undergraduate Students: Sebastian Garay, David Amaya, & Kevin Chong

    Graduate Student: Salim Kortobi

    Research Mentors: Simin Nasseri & Mohammad Jonaidi

  • "Conservation and Function of Human Oncogene FYN in Drosophila melanogaster"

    Undergraduate Student: Megan McCabe

    Research Mentor: Dongyu Jia

    "Pre-Twisted Molecular Geometry's Effect on the Optical Properties of Nitrophenyl Substituted Polycyclic 1,2-BN-Heteroarenes"

    Undergraduate Student: Lilianna Kocai

    Research Mentor: Carl J. Saint-Louis

  • "An Algorithmic Approach for Optimizing Blood Transactions in Regions with Scarce Donation Rates"

    Graduate Student: El Arbi Belfarsi

    Research Mentors: Maria Valero, Lin Li, & Robert Keyser

  • "Finite Element Analysis of Seismic Response in Structural Models with and without Fluid Viscous Dampers, Using a New Viscoelastic Model, Phase IGraduate"

    Graduate Students: Salim Kortobi & Brent Pruitt

    Undergraduate Students: Urban Micheals

    Research Mentors: Simin Nasseri & Mohammad Jonaidi

  • "Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Dental Caries in Permanent Molars of Children and Adolescents Using NHANES 2011-16 Data"

    Graduate Student: Pritam Deb

    Research Mentor: Christina Scherrer & Lin Li

 

鈥 Story by Alyssa Ozment

鈥 Photo by Matt Yung