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Detailed Program Schedules

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08:00 - 09:00

09:00 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:00

10:00 - 12:00

12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:00

18:00 - 20:30

Check-in & Tea Time (Breakfast on Your Own)

(Ballroom I) Keynote Speaker I: The evolution of fuzz testing: from heuristics-based to AI-driven, Hao Chen, Professor, CS, University of California, Davis (Session Chair: Vikrant Nanda, Principal TPM, FigureAI & Vice President, SVCSI)

Break

(Ballroom I) Research Track 1 (Session Chair: Session Chairs: Attila Yavuz, University of South Florida) #3617: Reza Soosahabi (Keysight Technologies Inc.) and Rakesh Seal (Keysight Technologies Inc.) , "Helol Tunnel: Covert Channel Exploitation of TLS Extensibility & Privacy Features" #1275: Madeline Moran (Loyola University Chicago), Joshua Honig (Loyola University Chicago), Nathan Ferrell (Loyola University Chicago), Shreena Soni (Loyola University Chicago), Sophia Homan(Loyola University Chicago), Eric Chan-Tin(Loyola University Chicago) and Mohammed Abuhamad (Loyola University Chicago), "Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis: To Website Fingerprinting and Beyond" #7603: Pranav Gangwani (Florida International University), Alexander Perez-Pons (Florida International University), and Himanshu Upadhyay (Florida International University), "A Comparative Study of Trust Management Models for Security Enhancement in Wireless Sensor Networks" #3998: Saleh Darzi (University of South Florida) and Attila Yavuz (University of South Florida), "SLAP: Secure Location-proof and Anonymous Privacy-preserving Spectrum Access" #9115: Qaiser Khan (University of Colorado), Sourav Purification (University of Colorado), Rono Cheruiyot (University of Colorado), Jinoh Kim (Texas A&M University), Ikkyun Kim, (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), and Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado) , "Post-Quantum Digital Signature and Authentication for eSIM in 5G Mobile Networking" #3088: Wael Alsabbagh (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg), Chaerin Kim (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg), Bahij Sayegh (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg) and Peter Langendoerfer (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg), "FeatNet-IDS: Anomaly Detection based-Features for Industrial Internet of Things Systems"

(Fremont Ballroom) Research Track 3 (Session Chair: Nima Karimian, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University) #8360: Umesh Yadav (The University of Toledo), Suman Niroula (Youngstown State University), Gaurav Kumar Gupta (Youngstown State University), and Bicky Yadav (Islington College) , "Exploring Secure Machine Learning Through Payload Injection and FGSM Attacks on ResNet-50" #9819: Nathan Armstrong (University of Wolverhampton) and Thomas Hartley (University of Wolverhampton), "Artificially Insecure: Examining GitHub Copilot’s AI-based Vulnerability Prevention System” #3180: Helen Liu (University of Washington), Summer McCune (University of Kentucky), Quang Duy Tran (San Jose State University), Fabio Di Troia (San Jose State University) and Younghee Park (San Jose State University), "Extending Natural Language Processing Tokenization Methods for Malware Detection with Context Extraction" #2414: Sebastian Alexis (Northwood High School) "A Novel Approach to the Detection of Stegomalware in PDFs Using Kolmogorov Complexity" #7041: Aidan Jones (San Jose State University), Ankita Jaswal (San Jose State University), Regenel Anastacio (San Jose State University), Arpitha Srinivas (San Jose State University), and Mahima Agumbe Suresh (San Jose State University), "Cyber-Security Dashboard: An Extensible Intrusion Detection System for Distributed Controls Systems"

Lunch

Cyber Warrior:
Meta CTF (Ballroom I) at 13:00 - 14:30

(Session Chair: Jackie Zhang, Fort Hays State University  & Sang-Yoon Chang, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Break

Poster & Demo Competition (Ballroom II)
at 14:00 - 17:00
Poster Chairs:Junggab Son(UNLV & Sean Choi( Santa Clara University)
Demo Chairs: Jackie Zhang (FHSU)& Sang-Yoon Zhang (UCCS) with 2-3 Judges

(Ballroom I) Research Track 2 (Session Chair: Eric Chan-Tin, Loyola University Chicago) #2184: Arjun Sudheer (San Jose State University), Ayesha Ahmed (University of Michigan), Fabio Di Troia (San Jose State University), and Younghee Park (San Jose State University) , "Synthetic Malware Generation Based on Generative Models Against Zero-Day Attacks" #0927: Moses Ndebugre (North Carolina A&T State University), Mahmoud Nabil (North Carolina A&T State University), Ahmad Patooghy (North Carolina A&T State University), and Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh (North Carolina A&T State University), "A Comprehensive Software Vulnerability Dataset Based on OWASP Top Ten Standard" #7077: Dipankar Saha (Independent Researcher), Bhushan Bhimrao Chavan (Independent Researcher), and Vishalkumar Langaliya (SSR College of Arts) , "Clickjacking in the Modern Era: Analyzing Emerging Attack Vectors and Advanced Defense Strategies #3263: Arnold Spantzel (Brigham Young University) and Adelheid Spantzel (Folsom Lake College), "Specialized Language Models for Combating Audio and Video" #2780: Austin Erwin-Martinetti (San Jose State University) and Amith Kamath Belman (San Jose State University), "Inter-Device User Keystroke Analysis" #7230: Noah Loke (Cal Poly Pomona) , Vaibhav Bajpai (Independent Researcher), and Tingting Chen (Cal Poly Pomona), "CELS (Crystalline Encryption Layered Security): A Security Extension of Messaging Applications using Post-Quantum Cryptography”

Cyber Warrior:
LLM Challenges Demo Presentations (Ballroom II)
at 15:30 - 17:30

Break (Dinner tickets will be distributed at the check-in desk!)

(Fremont Ballroom)-Welcome to join
PC Meeting for SVCC 2026 at 18:00 - 19:00

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