IEEE Military Communications Conference
30 October – 3 November 2023 // Boston, MA, USA
Communications Supporting Military Operations in a Contested Environment

Program

0830

Welcome & Overview of Workshop

0840

Paper Session S1: Attacks

30 mins

Channel Aware Adversarial Attacks are Not Robust. Sujata Sinha and Alkan Soysal (Virginia Tech, USA)

30 mins

Data-Driven Constraint Mining for Realizable Adversarial Samples. Bleema Rosenfeld (Peraton Labs); Sridhar Venkatesan, Rauf Izmailov, Matthew Yudin and Constantin Serban (Peraton Labs, USA)

30 mins

The Efficacy of Transformer-Based Adversarial Attacks in Security Domains. Kunyang Li, Kyle D Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand and Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

1010

Break

1030

Keynote Talk.

60 mins

Robert Kimball (DEVCOM C5ISR, USA)

1130

Paper Session S3: Defenses

30 mins

Electrical Grid Anomaly Detection via Tensor Decomposition. Alexander B. Most (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA); Maksim Ekin Eren (Los Alamos National Laboratory & University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Boian Alexandrov and Nigel Lawrence (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

30 mins

Graph Machine Learning Based Cyber Attack Detection for Mobile Tactical Networks. Keerthiraj Nagaraj, Dennis E Agnew, Jr., Pavan Kumar Mangipudi and Allen Starke (University of Florida, USA); Zixiang Nie (University of South Florida, USA); Janise McNair (University of Florida, USA). Moderator: Dr. Brian Rivera (DEVCOM ARL, USA)

1230

Lunch Break

1400

Panel: “AI for Cyber: Challenges and Potential”. Prof. Patrick J. Baker (RAF, UK), LTC Nathaniel Bastian, PhD (USMA, USA), Dr. Ryan Craven (ONR, USA), Prof. Brian Jalaian (Univ. West Florida, USA), Dr. Kristopher Reese (IARPA, USA).

1530

Break

1600

Paper Session S5: Explainable AI

30 mins

Human Centered Explainable AI Framework for Military Cyber Operations. Clara Maathuis, Ir. (Open University, The Netherlands)

30 mins

Neurosymbolic AI in Cybersecurity: Bridging Pattern Recognition and Symbolic Reasoning. Brian Jalaian (University of West Florida & Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Nathaniel D. Bastian (United States Military Academy, USA)

1700

Closing Workshop Remarks

1710

Workshop Adjourns

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