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MSIT Students Nafeeul Walee and Damilola Elelegwu Presented Their Research at IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 in Atlanta
Information Technology has played an important role in many sectors and research areas, particularly in project management and cybersecurity. Our MSIT students recently presented their (team’s) research findings at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 in Atlanta on March 23.
Nafeeul Alam Walee and his team (with Tasnim Akter Onisha, Azeezat Akinola, and Gijs van Deventer) used machine learning techniques (logistic regression, linear regression, and decision tree regressor) to explore and compare the differences among various project management methods (Agile vs. others), and measured management impacts using prediction probabilities, classifications, confusion matrix, R-squared, and Mean Square Error (MSE). The research findings offer valuable insights into understanding Agile’s impact on IT industries, encouraging further exploration and refinements to make informed decisions on project management strategies and fostering future research to enhance IT project success rates. Their paper will soon be included in IEEE Xplore: Nafeeul Alam Walee, Tasnim Akter Onisha, Azeezat Akinola, Gijs van Deventer, and Lei Chen, “Impact of Agile Methodology in IT Industries: A Comparative Study”, in Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon, Atlanta, March 21-24, 2024.
Damilola Elelegwu (graduated in Dec. 2023) introduced a novel browser extension designed to effectively thwart keylogger malware attacks. His approach analyzes input-related processes, promptly identifying and flagging any malicious activities through a developed browser add-on/extension, which empowers users with the immediate choice to terminate the suspicious process or validate its authenticity. According to Damilola, this is the first of its kind to offer end users such crucial real-time anti-keylogger control through a web browser. He is seeking possible patents and potential business collaborations from this research and development. His paper, co-authored with his thesis committee, will soon be included in IEEE Xplore: Damilola Elelegwu*, Lei Chen, Yiming Ji, and Jongyeop Kim, “A Novel Approach to Detecting and Mitigating Keyloggers”, in Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon, Atlanta, March 21-24, 2024.
Summer 2023 Success Story About the NSF-IRES-INNOVATOR Program Led by Dr. Masoud Davari Between the U.S. and Denmark
Are you curious about the amazing student success achieved by the NSF U.S.-Denmark Program—NSF-IRES-INNOVATOR Program in Summer 2023? The program has made a huge impact on the supergrid’s reliability and has taken a significant step towards enhancing the integration of renewables in the global supergrid. If you are a U.S. student looking to be a part of this revolutionary program, we have great news for you! We are now calling for student participants to join the NSF-IRES-INNOVATOR Program for Summer 2024—don’t miss this incredible opportunity to participate in a program that’s shaping the future of integrating renewables into our future modern grids.
In May 2023, Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Masoud Davari technically and culturally prepared six (6) U.S. student participants from a diverse group with different backgrounds in power engineering, control engineering, renewable energy engineering, computer science, and mechanical engineering for two (2) weeks at the leading site in the U.S.—i.e., the Laboratory for Advanced Power and Energy Systems (LAPES) directed by PI Davari in the newly established Engineering and Research Building at Georgia Southern University.
Afterward, they conducted cohort-based research projects at the international site in Aalborg, Denmark, for eight (8) weeks from the beginning of June 2023 to the end of July 2023. They completed their international research in the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE)—i.e., the international site directed by Professor Frede Blaabjerg in the AAU Energy Department at Aalborg University (AAU) in Aalborg, Denmark. They have completed post-trip follow-ups in LAPES at Georgia Southern University from late July 2023 to early August 2023.
Students’ Success in Summer 2023—Click on the link to visit the technical and cultural experiences of the U.S. student participants.
More Information on How to Get Involved and Recruited—If interested in getting involved in these existing NSF-funded international projects, click on the link to see the project themes, eligibility, stipend, “application form,” and submission process.
Dr. Davari Receives an NSF Award
Dr. Masoud Davari, the lead principal investigator and the Associate Professor in Power Electronics Applications in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded funding from the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) in the United States National Science Foundation (U.S. NSF) for his proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: IRES Track I: U.S.-Denmark program for advanced reliability analysis of ac/dc converters with INNOVAtive conTrols in glObe-spanning supergRid (INNOVATOR).” In this $300k, four-year, U.S.-NSF-OISE-funded project, U.S. citizen/national/permanent resident graduate and/or undergraduate students will research reliability analysis of power electronic systems in an international program between two (2) countries, the U.S. and the Kingdom of Denmark.
The student participants will be technically and culturally prepared in the leading site in the U.S.—i.e., the Laboratory for Advanced Power and Energy Systems (LAPES) in the newly established Engineering and Research Building at Georgia Southern University—to conduct cohort-based research projects at the international site in Aalborg, Denmark. The international site is the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE) in the AAU Energy Department at Aalborg University (AAU). AAU’s power engineering program is one of the largest and youngest in Europe—consistently ranked among the best across the continent and Best Global Universities. The student participants supported by this U.S.-NSF-OISE funding will form partnerships with CORPE’s international industrial partners, e.g., ABB, Schneider Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, Fairchild Semiconductor, Danfoss, Vestas, and more, as well as CORPE’s academic networks.
Their projects in the CORPE at AAU will be associated with ac/dc power electronic converters [voltage-source converters (VSCs)] in a possible globe-spanning supergrid (GS2G)—an essential component of the energy sector to integrate renewables to respond to urgent environmental concerns caused by global warming at an alarming rate and international agreements. Under the umbrella of smart grids, they assess and improve the reliability of VSCs with innovative controls in GS2G. The proposed research will advance fundamental knowledge related to
- enhancing the stability and performance of VSCs in GS2G,
- integrating renewables into power and energy systems via GS2G’s ac/dc grids,
- achieving more reliable energy exchange and secure power transfer through VSCs, and
- employing state-of-the-art technologies to test VSC performance and analyze and improve VSC reliability, including approaches based on machine learning techniques.
Graduate and undergraduate students will rigorously investigate technical aspects of VSCs with advanced controls and novel reliability analysis techniques for GS2G’s VSCs. For example, they deploy artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to simplify the analysis and make it computationally viable when many components are considered. AI-based analysis of the reliability of power electronics systems is now among the most sophisticated existing methodologies—thus becoming adopted by the power electronics industry more and more.
NOTE: Please find more information on the program, e.g., eligibility, stipends, logistics, etc.—as well as the necessary application form (the “Apply Now!” button)—on the U.S.-Denmark-Program—NSF-IRES-INNOVATOR website. Also, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Masoud Davari at mdavari@georgiasouthern.edu to gain more details about this exciting program and how to get involved.
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