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10th Annual Hume Center & IC CAE Colloquium

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Time: 9:00am-6:30pm

Location: Squires Student Center, Commonwealth Ballroom. 

290 College Avenue 

Blacksburg, VA 24060

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Open to students, faculty, and alumni from Virginia Tech and all other IC CAE institutions and CCI affiliations.

About the 10th Annual Hume Center & IC CAE Colloquium

The 10th annual Hume Center colloquium, sponsored through our Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) grant, will be full of exciting student and faculty presentations related to ongoing research and experiential learning programs from across multiple departments and colleges at Virginia Tech.

The theme of this year's colloquium will be "Critical and Emerging Technologies", and will showcase our students' continued endeavors to become the next generation of national security leaders.

The morning sessions will begin with presentations from our Workforce Development student teams working with CACI, MITRE, and Raytheon which will focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, and software defined radio communications.

After a panel discussion with partners from industry, government, and academia, the student presentations will continue. The Hume Center IC CAE Research Fellowship Team Presentations will feature students working with our industry partners Leidos, BAE Systems, ManTech as well as VT faculty in Geography and Political Science.

After lunch, we will focus on Hume Center Student Experiential Learning Teams. Presentations will highlight exciting research happening within the Virginia Tech National Security Institute, including programs such as MEEP: Materials & Advanced Manufacturing in Applied Electromagnetics, OSINT Framework Development for Countering Disinformation, Automated Cyber-Attack Detection and Mitigation under Non-Stationarity using Operating Envelopes, and Development of an EMCCD space camera for a 6U CubeSat spacecraft.

In the late afternoon we will begin the research poster reception where even more of our students will be on hand to showcase their hard work and research exploration.

We are honored to host Dr. Stacy Dixon, as our Keynote Speaker. Dr. Dixon is the current Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

As the Hume Center continues to foster the cutting edge education and research for the leaders of tomorrow, we look forward to you joining us for this exciting event.

Please join us for a day of invigorating presentations, panel discussions, and speakers on April 12, 2023. For additional information, please contact the Hume Center for National Security and Technology at humecenter@vt.edu.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Sarah Downer at humecenter@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

 

April 12, 2023  
8:55 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction to 10th Annual Hume Center & IC CAE Colloquium
9:00 a.m. 
Workforce Development Program Student Team Presentations
  • 9:00 - LoRa waveform - Software, Hardware, and Direction Finding (CACI Inc. sponsored Undergraduate Workforce Development Program)
  • 9:15 - Integration of Reinforcement Learning and Unreal Engine for Enemy Containment via Autonomous Swarms (The MITRE Corporation sponsored Undergraduate Workforce Development Program)
  • 9:30 - Use and Abuse of Personal Information Open source intelligence Engine Automation (Raytheon Technologies sponsored Undergraduate Workforce Development Program)
  • 9:45 - Use and Abuse of Personal Information Interaction Engine Design (Raytheon Technologies sponsored Undergraduate Workforce Development Program)
  • 10:00 - A Radio Frequency Reinforcement Learning Testbed (IC CAE Multi-College Collaborative Research Program) 
10:15 a.m. 
Panel – The Importance of Collaboration Between Academia, Industry, and Government in National Security
  • Moderator: Peter Beling, PhD, Director, Intelligent Systems Division at the Virginia Tech NSI 

Panelists

  • Chris Jones, Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Science & Technology
  • Patrick Cantwell, PhD, Director of Technology Transfer and Engagement, NSWC Dahlgren
  • Aaron Brantly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of PolySci and Director, Tech4Humanity lab
  • Tracee Gilbert, PhD, System Innovation, CEO
  • Timothy Barton, PhD, Leidos Senior Vice President and Dynetics Group CTO
  • Greg Simer, Chief Technology & Strategy, Defense Systems Sector, Northop Grumman
11:05 a.m.
BREAK
11:15 a.m.
Hume IC CAE Research Fellowship Team Presentations
  • 11:15 Coastal risks and vulnerability at the civilian-military interface (VT Geography Department sponsored research Team)
  • 11:30 The National Security Risk of TikTok in the US:A Comprehensive Assessment of Data Privacy and Collection (Microsoft sponsored research team)
  • 11:45 A Security Threat?: A Framing Analysis of New York Times' Coverage of Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers (VT Communication Department sponsored research team)
  • 12:00 Investigating OpenAI capabilities for source code security analysis, evaluation, and correction (ManTech sponsored research team)
  • 12:15 Project METEOR (Northrop Grumman sponsored research team)
12:30 p.m. 
LUNCH
1:30 p.m.
Experiential Learning Research Teams
  • 1:30 VICEROY: Adversarial Machine Learning in IOT Networks
  • 1:45 NEEC: Model based Cyber Mission Engineering 
  • 2:00 NEEC Quantum Computing: Algorithm Development and Hardware Science
  • 2:15 Embedded Antennas for Airborne Vehicles
  • 2:30 A Bayesian Approach Towards Balanced Probability Calibration and Boldness
  • 2:45 Boeing IOT Project
  • 3:00 Ukraine/Russia Analysis of Disinformation
  • 3:15 Development of an EMCCD Space Camera for UV Spectroscopy
  • 3:30 Deploying an EMCCD Camera in a CubeSat Platform
3:45 p.m. 
Concluding remarks
4:00 p.m.
Student Poster Session and Reception
5:30 p.m. 
Keynote Address