ACM-MIDSE-2026: ACM MIDSOUTHEAST 2026
PROGRAM
Friday, November 13th

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08:00-08:10 Session 1: Welcome and Annoucements

At this event, our chapter president will welcome members to the conference and update us on any last-minute changes to the program.

Location: Azalea
08:10-09:00 Session 2: Keynote Address
Location: Azalea
08:10
Mike Singleton (Granum, United States)
2026 Keynote Speaker (abstract)
09:15-10:35 Session 3A
Chair:
Robert Lowe (University of Tennessee at Martin, United States)
Location: Highlander I
09:15
Robert Lowe (University of Tennessee at Martin, United States)
Meili Charles (Pellissippi State Community College, United States)
The Elusive Grace Hopper Code (abstract)
09:35
Ferhan Atici (Western Kentucky University, United States)
Mustafa Atici (Western Kentucky University, United States)
Analyzing Complexity of Recursive Algorithms (abstract)
09:55
James Church (Austin Peay State University, United States)
Sustaining a Large-Scale K–12 Computing Outreach Program: Austin Peay State University Coding Camps since 2017 (abstract)
10:15
Suk Jin Lee (James Madison University, United States)
Toward Zero Trust Privileged Access: A Three-Layer Framework for Liveness-Verified, Hardware-Attested Biometric Authentication (abstract)
09:15-10:35 Session 3B
Chair:
Greg Kawell (Samford University, United States)
Location: Azalea
09:15
Ella Madalinski (Samford University, United States)
Visual Nutrition: From Plate to Data with Generative AI (abstract)
09:35
Jagrishi Settipalli (Columbus State University, United States)
Driving Behavior Analysis using Vehicle Diagnostic Logs (abstract)
09:55
Tyler Ward (Columbus State University, United States)
Lydia Ray (Columbus State University, Georgia)
Evaluating Locally Hosted LLM agents for Digital Forensics Triage on the SANS SIFT Workstation (abstract)
10:15
Gianna Mantegna (Maryville College, United States)
A Look Back at Looking Forward: A Reflection on the New England Landscape Futures Model (abstract)
09:15-10:35 Session 3C
Chair:
Kathleen Ericson (University of Tennessee at Martin, United States)
Location: Dogwood II
09:15
Michael Orsega (The University of West Georgia, United States)
Student Use of Version Control in CS2 with Minimal Instruction (abstract)
09:35
Bradley Northern (Tennessee Technological University, United States)
Michael Rogers (Tennessee Technological University, United States)
Through-the-Soil Wireless Power Transfer: Open-Region Simulations and Analysis (abstract)
09:55
Adiba Mahmud (Tuskegee University, United States)
Mohamed Fadlalla (Tuskegee University, United States)
Yasmeen Rawajfih (Tuskegee University, United States)
Fan Wu (Tuskegee University, United States)
Evaluating HTTP Message Signatures for AI Agents: Replay, Request Binding, and Authorization Scope (abstract)
09:15-10:35 Session 3D
Chair:
Yu Wu (Tougaloo College, United States)
Location: Dogwood I
09:15
Dylan Daniels (UT Martin, United States)
Mason Enochs (UT Martin, United States)
Franklin Dylan Pruitt (UT Martin, United States)
Zackary Rippee (UT Martin, United States)
Tesseract (abstract)
09:35
Gabriel Speer (UT Martin, United States)
Jose Hipolito (UT Martin, United States)
Evaluating Traffic Analysis Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Tradeoffs in Encrypted Mobile Applications (abstract)
09:55
Jocelyn Ruiz (UT Martin, United States)
Colby Duke (UT Martin, United States)
Analysis and Classification of Particle-Shock Interactions in Supersonic Wind Tunnel Imaging Data (abstract)
10:15
Christian McKenzie (UT Martin, United States)
Tyler Hull (UT Martin, United States)
Sam Emison (UT Martin, United States)
Email Phishing Detection with Machine Learning (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 4A
Chair:
Melissa Wiggins (Mississippi College, United States)
Location: Highlander I
10:40
Melissa Wiggins (Mississippi College, United States)
Asimov's Dilemma: The Implementation, Ethics, and Future of Teaching AI as a Means for Security (abstract)
11:00
Olivia Fernandez (UT Martin, United States)
Bryan Sandor (UT Martin, United States)
Lily Pharris (UT Martin, United States)
From Classroom to Campus Defense: Student Perceptions of a Vishing Simulation Service-Learning Project (abstract)
11:20
Qing Wang (The University of Tennessee at Martin, United States)
Terrain Visibility Graph Recognition and Reconstruction (abstract)
11:40
David Frazier (University of Virginia's College at Wise, United States)
Does Speculative Decoding Theory Hold on Consumer-Grade Hardware? (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 4B
Chair:
Mustafa Atici (Western Kentucky University, United States)
Location: Azalea
10:40
Collin Summers (University of North Alabama, United States)
Cynthia Stenger (University of North Alabama, United States)
Using Machine Learning to Recommend Protein-Specific Variants of Unknown Significance for Student Research (abstract)
11:00
Clue Pollen (Tennessee State University, United States)
Team Calendula and Systemiser: Building Software for Under-Represented Mental Health Conditions (abstract)
11:20
Grant Cromwell (Tennessee State University, United States)
In-house Beamforming Array (abstract)
11:40
Ciwan Kapan (Middle Tennessee State University, United States)
Julio Clavasquin (Middle Tennessee State University, United States)
Mason McDowell (Middle Tennessee State University, United States)
Dominic Zeferin (Middle Tennessee State University, United States)
Supervised Agentic AI Discharge Coordinator: An Offline Case-Based Evaluation Study (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 4C
Chair:
Chenchutta Jackson (Tennessee State University, United States)
Location: Dogwood II
10:40
Peiyuan Zeng (Columbus State University, United States)
Lixin Wang (Columbus State University, United States)
An Improved Stepping-stone Intrusion Detection Using Packet Crossover with Refined Send-Echo Matching (abstract)
11:00
Jennifer Konadu Boateng (EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, United States)
Explainable Machine Learning for Residential House Price Prediction Using SHAP-Based Feature Attribution (abstract)
11:20
Rahul Raj (Columbus State University, United States)
Akshith Nukala (Columbus State University, United States)
Exploring Quantization-Aware Training for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (abstract)
11:40
Rahul Raj (Columbus State University, United States)
Kenji Guermonprez (Columbus State University, United States)
Feature Selection and PCA on Random Forest-Based Network Intrusion Detection (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 4D
Chair:
Ken Nguyen (Clayton State University, United States)
Location: Dogwood I
10:40
Joseph Herron (UT Martin, United States)
Gerardo Gonzalez (UT Martin, United States)
Design and Implementation of a Secure Satellite Imagery Database Using Encryption and Role-Based Access Control (abstract)
11:00
Cecilia Yates (UVA Wise, United States)
Visualizing Chaotic Dynamical Systems in Python (abstract)
11:20
Ethan Milam (The University of Virginia's College at Wise, United States)
Developing and Evaluating a Cybersecurity Focused Retrieval Augmented Generation System (abstract)
11:40
Jalyn Thompson (UVA Wise Student, United States)
Evaluating Locally Hosted AI Agents in an Isolated Red-Team/Blue-Team Environment (abstract)
12:00-12:50Lunch Break
13:00-14:20 Session 5A
Chair:
Muhammad Rahman (Clayton State University, United States)
Location: Highlander I
13:00
Ken Nguyen (Clayton State University, United States)
Muhammad Rahman (Clayton State University, United States)
COAP: An Agentic AI Framework for Automated OAIS Packaging and Human-in-the-Loop Curation in Digital Archives (abstract)
13:20
H. Erin Rickard (Coastal Carolina University, United States)
Death of a Journal and a Potential CURE (abstract)
13:40
Bob Bradley (UT Martin, United States)
CompileIt Development With ChatGPT Codex (abstract)
14:00
Renu Renu (GenXBots LLC, United States)
Design and Production Deployment of an LLM-Routed Multi-Agent Platform for Intelligent Healthcare Workflow Automation (abstract)
13:00-14:20 Session 5B
Chair:
Fnu Movinuddin (LTM, United States)
Location: Azalea
13:00
Autumn Moncrief (University of Virginia at Wise, United States)
The Importance of Reverse Engineering (abstract)
13:20
Joey Meeks (UT Martin, United States)
Cole Belew (UT Martin, United States)
Shiva Patel (UT Martin, United States)
Deceptive Shell (abstract)
13:40
Iyanna Woods (UT Martin, United States)
Brandon Daniel (UT Martin, United States)
Evaluating the Reliability of Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems Against Evasive Network Attacks (abstract)
14:00
Michael Floyd (UT Martin, United States)
Braeden Goodman (UT Martin, United States)
Computer Science Lesson Plan (abstract)
13:00-14:20 Session 5C
Chair:
Ralph Bording (Alabama A&M Unuversity, United States)
Location: Dogwood II
13:00
Noel Ricks (Tougaloo College, United States)
Yu Wu (Tougaloo College, United States)
Robust Audio Deepfake Detection under Real-world Transformation and Degradation (abstract)
13:20
Mckenzie Hughes (UT Martin, United States)
Gabriel Carranza (UT Martin, United States)
Yessi Chavez (UT Martin, United States)
Mont Blanc Projection Model (abstract)
13:40
Tyson Arnold (UT Martin, United States)
Dylan Hutson (UT Martin, United States)
Circuit Space (abstract)
13:00-14:20 Session 5D
Chair:
James Church (APSU, United States)
Location: Dogwood I
Christian Goethert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States)
Developing a Cyber-physical Attack Range for applications of Edge Artificial Intelligence on simulated Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellations (abstract)
Tom Ngo (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Hien Tran (Columbus State University, United States)
Jakayla Lewis (Columbus State University, United States)
Exploring Semantic Similarity for Research Collaborator Discovery in Computer Science (abstract)
Antania Bivens (CSU Student Chapter of ACM, United States)
Jaelynn Perry (CSU Student Chapter of ACM, United States)
Muhammad Rahman (CSU Student Chapter of ACM, United States)
MindBridge: An Interactive System for Accessible Mental Health Support (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 6: Vibe Coding Competition

We are having our second vibe coding competition! Build a team of at least four people to come and vibe-code a challenging project in a short time.

Location: Azalea
16:30-17:00 Session 7: Business Meeting

At our business meeting, we will discuss topics such as the conference budget, improvements to next year's conference, members' concerns, and chapter officer elections (only in election years). All officers are required to attend. All conference participants are welcome to attend (professionals normally attend, but students usually do not).

Location: Highlander I
17:00-18:00 Session 8: Social Gathering

Everyone is invited for snacks and board games. This is a time to relax and meet your fellow conference participants. Bring your favorite board games.

Location: Room 435
19:00-21:00 Session 9: Awards Banquet

At our banquet dinner, we celebrate the conference's conclusion. We will award the best presenters (undergraduate and graduate) and the best posters. We also eat a lot of really good food and invite you all to come back next year.

Location: Azalea