Dr. Karen Paullet was recently asked to be a guest on the Hub Cast podcast for The Cyber Social Hub with Kevin DeLong! Check out the episode where Kevin talks with Dr. Paullet about the latest trends in education for the digital forensics field:
On April 5, 2024, 10 teams of RMU students competed in the first ever AWS DeepRacer Competition at RMU!
Student teams spent more than a month learning how to code algorithms in Python to drive AWS DeepRacers (mini autonomous vehicles) using machine learning. The teams trained their models and got to test them out on the AWS DeepRacer League race track in the UPMC Events Center for the competition. All of the winners are pictured below receiving their awards with Dean Frank Hartle and Amazon’s DeepRacer League Pit Crew Leader, Nicole Murray.
The First Place team (pictured below) in the undergraduate bracket was the “Top Secret Racers” team, Kelson Bowman, Anthony Guerrero, and Evan Brooks, whose car finished with a lap time of 00:09.133 seconds. Each of the team members won a $1,000 scholarship!
The Runner-Up team (pictured below) in the undergraduate bracket was the “Track Knights” team, Isaac Arnold and Lipika Ratakonda. Their car finished with a lap time of 00:09.166 seconds. Each team member won a $250 scholarship award.
The First Place team (pictured below) in the graduate bracket was the “Tigers” team, Linfeng Hao, Koushik Reddy Donthireddy, and Koyi Raghavamma (not pictured), whose car finished with a lap time of 00:07.757 seconds. This was an extremely competitive lap time and the team was encouraged to submit their model to the national AWS DeepRacer League! Each of the team members won a $1,000 scholarship.
The Runner-Up team (pictured below) in the graduate bracket was the “Vihan” team, Jason Gao, Deepthi Sri Kommagani, and Ravi Sri Sankar Nukavarapu. Their car finished with a lap time of 00:09.391 seconds. Each team member won a $250 scholarship award.
Congratulations to the winning teams! Overall, the competition was a great way for students to get involved with AI and machine learning, and get some hands-on experience with reinforcement learning models.
A huge thank you to our faculty mentors for all of your support in helping our teams through the coding and training phases of the competition: Dr. Natalya Bromall, Dr. Steve Mancini, Dr. Noory Etezady, Dr. Peter Draus, Dr. Parul Yadav (Rooney Scholar), and Phill Miller (CIO)!
Thank you also to our student helpers, our Announcer, Dakota Rideout and our Track Boss, Harry Lyons! Another thanks to our student PR team who were instrumental in securing sponsors for our raffle prizes: Elise Spath, Ella Donovan, Megan McGinnis, Kennedi Randolph, and Jesse Fitch.
We’d also like to send out a special thank you to our IT Team for such amazing support: Phill Miller, Paul Dewey, Dylan McKenna, and Ian Connolly.
Our sponsors for the raffle prizes were very much appreciated! These included:
And a special thank you to our Amazon AWS Account Team and Pit Crew: Nicole Murray, Justin Marks, Eric Pierson, Brent Everman, Jacob Dishler, Jeremy McGriff, and Ope Usman.
We are so proud of all of our students, and hope that everyone had a great experience at the competition!
Dr. Jamie Pinchot
Department Head, CIS
Ryan Sydlic from ISC2 will be holding a presentation at 4:30 pm in the Wheatley Atrium. His presentation will be an informative session on ISC2 and the benefits of being a member. SET credit will be awarded and pizza will be served. This event is sponsored by the Top Secret Colonials (TSC).
Ryan Sydlik joined Telos in 2019, and serves as a security engineer. He has 10 years’ experience in information technology including cloud computing and cybersecurity in the government, healthcare and financial sectors.
Ryan is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), AWS Certified Solutions Architect and is ITIL certified. He has a graduate degree from the University of Maryland and an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.
We hope you can join us for this event!
Special invitation to our MS Healthcare Analytics students from Dr. Holly Hampe, Program Director for Health Services Administration.
Becoming Refounders: The Future of Healthcare
Patrick Colletti is a leadership and organizational culture expert, business growth advisor, champion for “refounders” and author of the book Refounder.
At this talk, he will be:
Audience: Any Healthcare Degree Students (administration, nursing, health science, psychology, premed), Any Healthcare Professionals and ANYONE interested in healthcare!!
When: April 2, 2024 5:30-7 pm
Where: RISE Theater, Scaife Hall
Please join us for this great program!
Please join us for the next information session about the NSF SFS Scholarship Grant on Tuesday, April 2 from 4-5pm in Wheatley 114. You’ll have a chance to learn more about how to apply for this excellent program.
Please join us in the Wheatley Atrium on Monday, March 25 from 4:30-5:30pm. Steve Rocco, Director of IT Security at Matthews International will give a talk on Managing Cyber Risk in a Corporate Environment. Internship opportunities will also be discussed.
SET credit available. And we will have pizza!
Dr. Parul Yadav, RMU’s Spring 2024 Rooney Scholar, will be presenting on Cybersecurity and AI Implications in the Wheatley Atrium on Wednesday, February 28th from 4:30-5:30pm. Students will receive 1 hour of SET credit. Pizza will be served.
Matt Rosenberg, an Allegheny County Mobile Device Forensic Examiner ranked second out of nearly 4,000 digital forensic examiners in the United States. The U.S. Secret Service’s National Computer Forensics Institute recognized the top digital forensic examiners and Allegheny County’s Matt Rosenberg rose to the top. This ranking took into consideration an investigator’s ability to extract data in three areas: mobile devices, digital media, and hard drives.
In addition to his full-time job as an Allegheny County Mobile Device Forensic Examiner, Professor Rosenberg also teaches part-time at RMU, instructing students in several courses including Intro to Digital Forensics, Fundamentals of Cyber Forensics, and Mobile Forensics. Congratulations, Professor Rosenberg, on this prestigious ranking!
To read more about this accomplishment, see:
WPXI news: Allegheny County Mobile Device Forensic Examiner recognized as 2nd best in country
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