Data Science and Management Research Laboratory

2024

• GRA Abdul Mohammed presented a research poster at WSSU Scholarship Day 2024, Winston-Salem, NC, April 2, 2024.

• Graduate student assistant Abdul Mohammed joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, January 15, 2024.

2023

• PI, Mustafa Atay, presented a short research paper at the 22nd IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (IEEE ICMLA), Jacksonville, FL, USA, December 15-17, 2023.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, presented a regular research paper at the 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), Mexico City, Mexico, December 5-8, 2023

• Our request for no-cost extension of the project until September 30, 2024 has been approved by NSF.

• GRA Megh Poudyel successfully defended his Master's thesis titled ‘Evaluating Performance of Masked Face Recognition Using Machine  and Deep Learning Algorithms', Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, August 9, 2023

• Undergraduate student assistant Saul Evora joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, June 1, 2023.

• Graduate student assistant Hector Santiago joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, June 1, 2023.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, served in the thesis committee of WSSU graduate student Anthony Smith's MS thesis titled ‘Effectiveness of A Bluetooth RSSI-Based Vectorized Algorithm for Mobility Detection Within Indoor Space’, WSSU, Winston-Salem, NC, May 3, 2023.

• GRA Megh Poudyel presented a research paper at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2023, Orlando, FL, April 15, 2023

• GRA Kel Lee presented a poster at WSSU Scholarship Day 2023, Winston-Salem, NC, April 4, 2023.

• GRA Megh Poudyel presented a poster at WSSU Scholarship Day 2023, Winston-Salem, NC, April 4, 2023.

• PI Mustafa Atay’s book chapter proposal on "AI-Based Facial Recognition: Impact of Race and Gender in Secure Verification and Identification" accepted by IOS Press, January 16, 2023

2022

• PI, Mustafa Atay, joined the Doctoral Dissertation Committee of the NCAT graduate student (former GRA) Tony Gwyn on ‘Demographic Bias of Deep Net Architectures in Facial Recognition', NCAT, Greensboro, NC, October 1, 2022.

• Co-PI, Debzani Deb, directed the project of WSSU graduate student Kel Lee's MS project titled ‘Smartphone Authentication Through Behavioral Biometrics’, WSSU, Winston-Salem, NC, September 1, 2022.

• Graduate student assistant Kel Lee joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 1, 2022.

• Graduate student assistant Megh Poudyel joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 1, 2022.

• GRA Josh Gamez successfully defended his Master's thesis titled ‘Evaluating Impact of Age in Facial Recognition Using Machine Learning And Deep Learning Algorithms', Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, August 4, 2022.

• GRA Josh Gamez presented a poster at WSSU Scholarship Day 2023, Winston-Salem, NC, April 5, 2022.

• GRA Josh Gamez made a presentation at the CS/IT Day, Winston-Salem, NC, April 5, 2022.

2021

• Graduate student assistant Josh Gamez joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 1, 2021.

• PI Mustafa Atay and GRA Tony Gwyn presented a research paper at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI'21), December 4, 2021, Orlando, FL.

• GRA James Coe and PI Mustafa Atay published a journal article at MDPI Computers, September 2021.

• GRA Norah Alshareef et al. published a journal article at MDPI Future Internet, August 2021.

• Graduate student assistant James Coe successfully defended his Master's thesis titled 'Evaluating Impact of Race in Facial Recognition Across Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms', Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, July 28, 2021.

• GRA Tony Gwyn et al. published a journal article at MDPI Future Internet, June 2021.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, served in the thesis committee of NCAT graduate student Norah Alshareef's MS thesis titled 'Exploring and Mitigation of Gender Bias in Face Presentation Attack Using Debiasing Variational Autoencoder', NCAT, Greensboro, NC, May 27, 2021.

• Research team organized and made four presentations at the 2nd NSF EiR Virtual Symposium on Data Science and Identity, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, April 30, 2021.

• GRA James Coe presented a poster at the Virtual CCSC Central Plains Region Conference, April 10, 2021

• Research team made two presentations at the CS/IT Day, Winston-Salem, NC, April 9, 2021.

• Research team presented four posters/abstracts at the WSSU Digital Scholarship Showcase, Winston-Salem, NC, April 8, 2021

• URA Mina Guirguis presented a poster at the ADMI Virtual Symposium on Machine Learning and Beyond, March 27, 2021

• PI, Mustafa Atay, joined the TPC of 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’21), Orlando, FL, December 4-7, 2021

• Graduate student assistant James Coe joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, January 1, 2021

2020

• Research team presented two papers at the 2020 IEEE ICMLA Conference, December 15, 2020.

• Fall 2020 NSF EiR joint PI meeting with NCAT collaborators, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 30, 2020.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, joined the TPC of 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’20), 1-4 December, 2020, Canberra, Australia.

• Undergraduate student assistant Dezmen Howard joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 1, 2020.

• PI Mustafa Atay’s new course proposal on Machine Learning has been approved and will be taught first time in Fall 2020, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, August 17, 2020.

• Graduate student assistant Tony Gwyn has been admitted to the PhD Program in Computer Science at NC A&T State University with a GRA package, Greensboro, NC, August 5, 2020.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, accepted to act as a Co-Guest Editor of Future Internet journal for Special Issue on “Machine Learning Approaches for User Identity”, July 30, 2020.

• Graduate student assistant Tony Gwyn successfully defended his master's thesis titled 'Evaluation of Local Binary Pattern Algorithm for the Use of Biometric Authentication', Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, July 26, 2020.

• PI, Mustafa Atay, participated in “Artificial Intelligence Workshop”, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, July 20-24, 2020.

• Undergraduate student assistant Hailey Gipson joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, July 1, 2020.

• Research team participated and made two presentations at NC A&T State University NSF EiR Symposium, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA, April 29, 2020.

• Research team presented two posters/abstracts at WSSU Digital Scholarship Showcase, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, April 18, 2020 (time at 2:45:00).

• Undergraduate student assistant Mina Guirguis joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, February 1, 2020.

2019

• Graduate student assistant Tony Gwyn joined the research team, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, November 1, 2019.

• Mustafa Atay (PI) and Debzani Deb (Co-PI) has been awarded by NSF for their Collaborative HBCU Excellence in Research grant titled "Computational Framework and Data Science for Identification", effective from, October 1, 2019.