Celebrating Summer Research 2026
From June 1 through July 31, 2026, the 2026 Summer Research Camp welcomed 14 undergraduate students, two graduate students, and one high school student to Washington Square Hall at San José State University as part of NSF-funded projects. In addition, eight high school students conducted summer research at SVCSI over a five-week period.
On July 31, 2026, we hosted an in-person research poster showcase at San José State University, where students presented their research projects to family members and friends. Throughout the summer, students demonstrated curiosity, creativity, and determination as they explored an exciting range of research topics.
Working both independently and in teams, participants explored cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital forensics, privacy, fraud, and autonomous systems. They asked challenging questions, built and tested new ideas, worked through unexpected results, and learned what research looks like beyond the classroom. Just as importantly, they supported one another, shared their growing expertise, and built connections across schools, majors, and experience levels.
The summer came to a joyful close with Poster Day on July 31. Surrounded by faculty, peers, family, and friends, students proudly presented the projects they had worked so hard to complete. The event was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate their achievements and see how much their confidence, technical ability, and passion for research had grown in just two months.
The camp was led by Principal Investigator Dr. Younghee Park (SJSU, with faculty support from Dr. Nurettin Senol (SJSU), Dr. Nima Karimina (USF), Dr. Xiaoyan Sun (WPI), and Vikrant Grande (Northeastern University). In addition, two graduate research assistants helped manage this program and mentor some of the groups: Ashutosh Mane, a graduate research assistant in the MS AI program at SJSU, and Zayd Mohammed, a graduate student in computer science at UC Davis. A heartfelt thank-you goes to every student, mentor, family member, and supporter who made this summer such a rewarding experience. We cannot wait to see where these talented students go next!
2026 Student Research Projects
Zoe Davis and Tina Huynh — Comparative Evaluation of OSForensics and Magnet AXIOM for Browser-Based Digital Evidence
Jayden Thai — Transparent RAM Artifact Triage Using a Java-Based Correlation Engine
David Pak and Jillian Walker — Browser-Based Dating Application Forensics
Victoria Le and Tsenguun Waller — Forensic Analysis of Browser-Based Messaging Platforms
Eman Naseerkhan, Sneha Nalla, and Vicente Chavez — Detecting Collusion Attacks in Differentially Private Federated Learning
Jan Michael Maturan — Adversarial Evaluation of a CNN–ViT Malware Classifier
Anna Tran, Ibrahim Khan, and Nathan Chuop — Trust-Aware Costmaps for Multi-Robot Navigation
Eric Huang — Financial Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning
Vicki Liang, Edward Vong — Reconnaissance Mitigation Through Observability and Risk Adaptation
Minha Tran* — Mental Health Service Utilization Among College Students in the San Francisco Bay Area
Adarsh Sudheer, Tibet Saldamli, Avery Chen - GLADE: Grounded Lagrangian Adversarial Diffusion Editing
Shijun Liu, Ryan Peng, Tran Ngoc Bao Huynh - Assessing Commercial LLM Assistance in Conducting Comprehensive IoT Exploits
Spencer Liu, Sanjoli Chattopadhyay, Steven Kubicky, "Cross-Model Agreement in LLM-Based Privacy Classification of iOS Users, accepted at the IEEE BigData 2026 High School Symposium (Congrats!!!)
