Welcome to IIS Lab




We are always looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our group!

We accept graduate students from Computer Science (MSCS) and Analytics and Data Science (Ph.D. in ADS) at the Kennesaw State University.
If you are interested in joining IIS Lab, email json@kennesaw.edu with your CV/research interests attached.

Recent News


Poster Acceptance

2/18/2022
A poster by Ali Akbar Mohammadi et al., "A Novel TCP/IP Header Hijacking Attack on SDN," has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2022 poster.

Paper Acceptance

2/7/2022
A paper by YeEun Kim et al., "3-Multi Ranked Searchable Encryption With Enhanced Security in Cloud Computing," has been accepted for publication in Digital Communications and Networks (IF=6.797).

Book Chapter Acceptance

1/31/2022
A book chapter by Mallika Boyapati et al., "Anti-Phishing Approaches in the Era of the Internet of Things," has been accepted for publication in a collected work provisionally entitled "Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies," Springer Nature.

Paper Acceptance

7/29/2021
A paper by Luke Cranfill et al., "Efficient yet Robust Privacy Preservation for MPEG-DASH Based Video Streaming," has been accepted for publication in Security and Communication Networks (SCN). SCN is the top-11th journal in the field of computer security and cryptography, according to Google Scholar.

Paper Acceptance

7/21/2021
A paper by Tejaswini Mallavarapu et al., "A Federated Approach for Fine-Graind Classification of Fashion Apparel," has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Machine Learning with Applications.

Paper Acceptance

6/14/2021
A paper by Hongkyu Lee et al., "Digestive Neural Networks: A Novel Defense Strategy Against Inference Attacks in Federated Learning," has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computers & Security (C&S). C&S is the top-6th journal in the field of computer security and cryptography, according to Google Scholar.

Job Offer

5/24/2021
Luke Cranfill, an MSCS student, got an offer from Home Depot. He will join the company as a Software Engineer.

Ph.D. Admission

4/1/2021
Victor Youdom Kemmoe received a Ph.D. admission from Brown University, which comes with a five-year guarantee of support that includes a stipend, full tuition, insurance, etc. (over $515,000 per year).

Job Offer

3/17/2021
William Stone got an offer from General Motors. He will join the company as a Software Developer.

Job Offer

3/5/2021
Daniel Karasek got an offer from Business Impact. He will join the company as a Junior Data Engineer.

Paper Acceptance

1/25/2021
A paper by Hongkyu Lee et al., "On Defensive Neural Networks Against Inference Attack in Federated Learning," has been accepted in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021. ICC is a flagship conference of IEEE Communication Society.

Paper Acceptance

10/4/2020
A paper by Stone et al., "Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection," has been accepted for publication in IEEE ACCESS.

Paper Acceptance

8/21/2020
A paper by Kemmoe et al., "Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things," has been accepted in IEEE SMC 2020.

Paper Acceptance

8/17/2020
A paper by Jeehyeong Kim et al., "A Novel Resource Allocation scheme for NOMA-V2X-Femtocell with Channel Aggregation," has been accepted in IEEE GlobeCom 2020.

A bigger lab space (J220B)

8/3/2020
A bigger office is assigned to IIS Lab in recognition of our research capability. The space is good for 12 students and is located on the second floor of the Atrium Building (J220B).

Paper Acceptance

7/23/2020
A paper by Hyunbum Kim et al., "Research Challenges and Security Threats to AI-driven 5G Virtual Emotion Applications Using Autonomous Vehicles," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Network Magazine.

Paper Acceptance

6/15/2020
A paper by Victor Youdom Kemmoe et al., "Recent Advances in Smart Contracts: A Technical Overview and State of the Art," has been accepted for publication in IEEE ACCESS.

Proposal Acceptance

5/22/2020
One of research proposals is accepted and will be funded by Oracle.
Title: A Federated Approach to Image Feature Extraction
Period: 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2021
Amount: US$100,000

Paper Acceptance

4/27/2020
A paper by Daniel Y. Karasek et al., "SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns" has been accepted in ICCCN 2020.

C-Day Winner, Spring 2020

4/27/2020
Victor Youdom Kemmoe won the second prize at CCSE computing Showcase, Spring 2020.
The title of his presentation is "Group Key Exchange without Trusted Third Party (TTP)".
For more details, please visit: https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/computing-showcase/

C-Day Winner, Fall 2019

12/05/2019
Daniel Karasek won the first prize at CCSE computing Showcase, Fall 2019.
The title of his presentation is "SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns".
For more details, please visit: https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/computing-showcase/

Lab is officially opened

07/05/2019
IIS Lab is officially operational. Members have already taken their places in J334 and J317 and started working.