School of Computing Ph.D. candidate M A U (Mahin) Shariff and Professor Byrav Ramamurthy received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), which took place June 10-12 in San Jose, California.
Their paper, “Enhancing Anomaly Resilience in Research Networks: A Large-Scale Forecasting Benchmark for Dynamic Security Baselining,” addressed the critical challenge of securing U.S. national scientific infrastructures. Shariff presented the paper at the conference.
“Receiving the Best Paper Award at IEEE SVCC 2026 is an incredible honor,” Shariff said. “It validates our efforts to bridge the gap between complex AI models and the real-world security needs of high-speed research networks. I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Professor Byrav Ramamurthy, for his guidance, and to the School of Computing for providing such a supportive environment for impactful research.”
Shariff and Ramamurthy also co-authored a second paper, "Engineering a 5-Phase Operational Framework for Research Network Analytics: A Scalable Deployment Architecture for High-Velocity Traffic," which addresses the data engineering bottlenecks of deploying deep learning models on national-scale networks. The paper was accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2026). Shariff also presented this paper at the conference in Tempe, Arizona, held June 15-16.
“Presenting at both IEEE SVCC and IEEE LANMAN this year was a rewarding experience,” Shariff said. “These conferences provided a vital platform to share our findings with global experts and discuss how AI-driven analytics can help secure the next generation of scientific infrastructure. It’s an exciting time to be working in this field, and I’m proud to represent the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on the international stage.”
Shariff and Ramamurthy's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The IEEE Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference is an annual international conference hosted in Silicon Valley, supported by the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute (SVCSI). It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to address challenges in dependability, reliability, and security across computing systems, networks, and cyber-physical environments.
IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. It covers both theoretical and experimental research, including cutting-edge papers on network technologies, protocols, and applications. Key program topics include Security and Reliability, Mobile and Edge Networking, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Cloud, Transport Protocols.
