Research Projects Involved

• Cyber Security Training For Teachers And First Responders (Pending NSF Support $ 222,753). ( 2006-2008)
  New Mexico Tech (NMT), a NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) since 2002, in pursuance of NSF SFS Program Solicitation (NSF 06-507), proposes to undertake the following Capacity Building activities: curriculum development and development of IA training material. Impacts of the proposed activity enhance IA skills of underrepresented population and enhanced IA skills of first responders. (2006)

• NMT IASP: New Mexico Tech Information Assurance Scholarship Program(Pending Department of Defense Support $318,509 ). ( 2006-2007)
  
  

• CAUSE (Cisco’s Academic University Support for Security Education) (Funded by CISCO $135,141.00). (2005)
  New Mexico Tech proposes to use the equipment that Cisco provides to carry out an integrated program of carefully-designed research, education, and training activities with multiple objectives aimed at advancing NMT students, the Native American communities and other minority groups toward the Presidential Decision Directive 63 visions, as follows: research to advance cyber security knowledge and capability, education to promote awareness, and training for workforce and economic Development.

• Pueblo ITEST of New Mexico (Funded by NSF Award #0525261, Awarded Amount: $1165769). (2005-2008)
  This project is a collaboration among the Santa Fe Indian School, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and local school districts partnering to provide students, teachers, and tribal mentors with experiences using GPS/GIS, mathematical modeling and computer graphics. The work is based on a model in the Santa Fe school in which curriculum is designed around problems and practices in traditional Pueblo Indian culture and life. Selected students and teachers will participate in a summer program, with coordinated follow-up sessions during the following school year. Students will be assigned internships in a pueblo community in a tribal department, working with a community mentor as an IT specialist. In addition, five advanced students will take a college-level course in IT. Evaluation will take advantage of both mainstream and traditional pueblo indicators of success, including benefit to the community, students' allegiance to their pueblo identity, the development and use of IT curriculum in schools, and college application and matriculation rates. Dissemination likewise will address mainstream audiences (through professional conferences and journals) and traditional cultures (through tribal organizations and web pages).

• New Mexico Information Security Forum , State of New Mexico (Funded by OCIO of New Mexico$ 18,975 ). (2005)
  This Forum was hosted by NM Tech at Macey Center on the campus in Socorro and sponsored by the ITC, NM Tech, the OCIO, and the Governor's Office of Homeland Security.

• Incident and Gap Analysis, New Mexico Department of Public Safety . Network Performance and Vulnerability Analysis (Funded by OCIO of New Mexico$ 22,121) . (2004)


• Incident and Gap Analysis of a Compromised State Agencies Network, New Mexico. (2004)


• AISTEA: Advancing Information Security Training, Education, and Awareness, NSF SFS program Capacity Building grant (Funded by NSF Award #0525261, Awarded Amount: $195,986). (2002-2004)
  New Mexico Tech (NMT), an NSA-designated CAE/IAE, proposes to undertake the following Capability Building activities in conjunction with its separately submitted Scholarship Track proposal. The efforts are aimed at maximizing the scholarship program’s impact, to promote information assurance (IA) awareness at the secondary education and community college levels, and to increase national capability for the education of IA professionals.

• DOD IASP 05: Capacity Building Grant Coordinated Information Technology and Assurance Development and Education Laboratory (Funded by Department of Defense $74,078.02) . (2005)
  

• DOD IASP 04: Capacity Building Grant Coordinated Information Technology and Assurance Development and Education Laboratory (Funded by Department of Defense $44,856.97) . (2004)
  

• Capacity Building Grant Coordinated Information Technology and Assurance Development and Education Laboratory (Funded by Department of Defense $144,448) . (2003)
  

• DOD IASP 02: Capacity Building Grant Coordinated Information Technology and Assurance Development and Education Laboratory (Funded by Department of Defense $156,906) . (2002)

Travel Grants and Other Support

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Travel Grant. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. ($700)


• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Travel Grant. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. ($700)


• New Mexico Tech Graduate Student Association (GSA) Travel Grant. International Conference Intelligent Systems and Control. ($700)


• New Mexico Tech Graduate Student Association (GSA) Travel Grant. IEEE International Conference on Coding and Computing. ($274)


• New Mexico Tech Graduate Student Association (GSA) Travel Grant. International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
• Applications and IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics. ($1000)


• New Mexico Tech Vice Presidents (Dr. P. Gerity, Dr. J. R. Juarez, Dr. V. Romero) Travel Support. 17th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. ($1565)


• IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Travel Support. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. ($200)


• IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Travel Support. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. ($325)


• New Mexico Tech Vice Presidents (Dr. P. Gerity, Dr. V. Romero) Travel Support. International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. ($1565)


• New Mexico Tech Vice Presidents (Dr. P. Gerity, Dr. J. R. Juarez) Travel Support. IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics. ($1200)


• Institute for Complex Additive System Analysis (ICASA) Travel Support. National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (NCISSE). ($1376)


• Institute for Complex Additive System Analysis (ICASA) Travel Support. International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. ($1200)


• Institute for Complex Additive System Analysis (ICASA) Travel Support. Digital Forensics Research Workshop. ($1500)


• Institute for Complex Additive System Analysis (ICASA) Travel Support. Digital Forensics Research Workshop. ($1275)


• Office of Naval Research Travel Support. Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer Intrusion Detection. ($265)


• Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Office of Naval Research Travel Support. Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer Intrusion Detection. ($675)

Awards:

• Founders’ Award (2005) New Mexico Tech.
  The award is presented to the recipient of an advanced degree who has made an outstanding contribution to NMTech through scholarship, research, and involvement in campus affairs.


• Patrick Orr Memorial Award, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico Tech, USA, 2003.
  The award named for Patrick Orr is given to an outstanding graduate student who demonstrates excellence in scholarship and potential for service in computer science education.


• S. Mukkamala, et. al. (2003) Winner of Forensic Feud. Digital Forensics Research Workshop, Sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Event Held at Cleveland.
  Forensic Feud: 2 Teams of forensic experts from the attendee’s ranks test their collective knowledge on a wide variety of questions form ALL forensic disciplines.


• S. Mukkamala, et. al. (2002) Winner of Forensic Feud. Digital Forensics Research Workshop, Sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Event Held at Syracuse University, Center for Systems Assurance.

Pending Patent:

• A. H. Sung, S. Mukkamala , T. Dawson, J. L. Lassez (2004) Computationally Intelligent Agents for Distributed Intrusion Detection System and Method of Practicing Same. Ser. No. 10/413,462 (FILING USPTO).