US Army Funded Forensic Investigations Network in Digital Sciences (FINDS) Research Center of Excellence – Summer Workshop 2023

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“The Forensic Investigations Network in Digital Sciences (FINDS) Research Center of Excellence” offered a volunteer research program for over 100 selected students from USA, India, Poland, and around the world for over a 7-week period during summer 2023 from June 19th to August 4th, 2023. The experience is a virtual research experience via ZOOM and students learned the following:

  • Investigation of research problems
  • Digital Forensics Workshop in week 1 and a Research 101 Course.
  • Weekly presentations on the progress
  • DRAFT Research article

Details of the Projects : https://finds.fiu.edu/project.html

Student Research Assignments

Project 1. Virtual Forensic Environment. 4
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Kevin Lothridge, Chris Esposito & Matt RuddellTEAM: Jorge Paneque
Divyang Baria
Prince Bhuva
Christopher Buck
Project 2. TrID: Command Line File Signature Analysis Tool. 5
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Kevin Lothridge, Chris Esposito & Matt RuddellTEAM: Ashvi Dalal
Manthan Thaker
Megha Vyas
Mokshesh Sanghvi
Project 3. Rapid SEED: A Field Expedient Tool for Seeding User Data. 5
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Kevin Lothridge, Chris Esposito & Matt RuddellTEAM: Bhumi Patel
Khushbu Patel
Victor Adankai
Heni Champaneria
Project 4. Triage Tool for Tracing Cryptocurrency Wallets 6
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Kemal Akkaya, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, kakkaya@fiu.eduTEAM: Antsaniaina Christian Randrianarisoa
Parth Gandhi
Aashar Musthafa
Maradana Sandhya
Gaurav Gogia
Project 5. How to Protect Remote Connections (Server) 8
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Latesh Kumar KJ (SIT)TEAM: Gor Parthavi
Maulik Patel
Niki Patel
Swapnil Patel
Shruti Patel
Mingming Peng
Project 6. A Forensic Analysis Tool for Web Transparency 9
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Amin Kharraz, FIUTEAM: Maryna Vekslar
Muaaz Kapadiya
Kusum Chaudhary
Mithra Cheeran
Terron Cherry
Project 7. Graph Theory Techniques for Digital Forensics 11
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Natarajan Meghanathan, Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Jackson State University, Jackson, MississippiTEAM: Mojit Rajai
Rishi Dhamija
Foram Desai
Dharmik Fichadiya
Project 8. Big Data Architectures for Storing and Processing Forensics Data 11
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Natarajan Meghanathan, Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Jackson State University, Jackson, MississippiTEAM: Sundaresan Ramachandran
Meghakumari Rameshbhi-soni
Jeet Rami
Samruddhi Raut
Project 9. Beyond SLIPS: Using Machine Learning and Markov Chain-based Detection for Malicious Network Behaviors 11
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. S.S. Iyengar & Col Jerry Miller

TEAM: Z TEAM: Y
Jeetish Bundela Naman Shah
Adrian Bustos Yashvi Shah
Parth Ghughriwala Gary White
Harsh Salot Rahul Shadija
Project 10. Attack Attribution: Graph Theory Techniques for Digital Forensics 12
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. S.S. Iyengar & Col Jerry MillerTEAM: Laura Penza
GN Chitra
Janei Elliston
Joan Tran
Amani Muller
Domonique Bess
Iris Ordenana
Project 11. Multi-Project Digital Forensic Techniques in Real-Time Applications 13
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. S.S. Iyengar & Col Jerry Miller

Project 11A. Large-Scale Data Visualization (LSDV) 13 Project 11B. Smartphone Forensics 13 Project 11C. Social Media Forensics 13
TEAM: TEAM: TEAM: TEAM:
Dipak Dabhi Aman Mishra Haimesh Chaudhari Pavni Parghi
Francis Manna Trevor Taylor Parth Jani Irina Raza
Janardan Pari Manish Dabi Ramiz Munshi Jahnvi Sha
Gunagya Chordia Yash Mehta Kristoff Little Jay Thakkar
Nilesh Panchal
Project 12. Privacy aware Digital Forensics Investigation in Organizations 13
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. N.R. Sunitha, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur, Karnataka, India.TEAM: Barad Gopi
Ahmon Ferguson
Parth Gandhi
Dhyeya Gohil
Yashas Hariprasad
Project 13. Combatting the data volume issue in digital forensics using HPC (High Performance Computing) 14
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. N.R. Sunitha, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur, Karnataka, India.TEAM: Deepak Vadlamudi
Rejayla Williams
Yu Wu
Vikrant Barul
Project 14. Forensic-chain: A Blockchain based digital forensics chain 14
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. N.R. Sunitha, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur, Karnataka, India.TEAM: Aastha Amin
Sri Hitha
Nuwagaba Ivan
Project 14B. Evaluation of cryptography usage in iOS Vault applications 15
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Hongmei Chi, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU).TEAM: Nilima Dhoble
Rudra Rajput
Gowda S. Jayanth
Dania Jean-Baptiste
Project 15. Comparison acquisition with different open-source tools 16
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Hongmei Chi, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU).TEAM: Purva Shah
Jayu Sharma
Pratham Sharma
Juhi Shrivastava
Project 16. Race Classification from Facial Images Using RCNN 16
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Hongmei Chi, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU).TEAM: Shruti Chandra Nair
P.R. Jeevan
Chetan Kumar Rajapantual
Sourav Kunal
Mecca Thorton
Project 17. Development of a Bayesian Framework and Likelihood Ratio Calculations Using a New Shiny App to Improve the Quality of Forensic Evidence 17
TEAM: Neel Shukla
Prerna Singh
Morgan Smith
Project 18. The quest for increase IoT security with forensics agents. 18
Professor/Mentor/Guide: Dr. Pawel Sniatala, Poznan University of TechnologyTEAM: Konrad Sniatala
Szymon Balinski
Piotr Kontowicz
Jay Makwana
Sanjay TankTEAM: Kuba Grylak
Michal Weissenberg
Nurjha Kureshi
Joel Maddirala
Raj Upadhyay