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An Unsupervised Probabilistic Method for Large Scale Flood Mapping: Exploring Archive of Sentinel-1A/B Satellites over India
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging provides an all-weather sensing technique that is suitable for near-real-time mapping of disasters such as floods. In this article, I use SAR data acquired by Sentinel-1A/B satellites ...
Observing a Global Pandemic from Space: Evaluating Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS) during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04-30)
When the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in December 2019, GIS technologies and web-based GIS dashboards were rapidly employed to share information regarding disease spread and impact on society. As GIS-based tools are ...
Self-Organizing Units in an Interdisciplinary Course for Pervasive Computing Design
(ASEE, 2009-06)
We conducted a case study of a design course that focused on bringing together students from engineering, industrial design, and marketing to use pervasive computing technologies to design, coordinate, and build a “smart” ...
Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection
(Internet Society, 2013-02)
As popular tools for spreading spam and malware, Sybils (or fake accounts) pose a serious threat to online communities such as Online Social Networks (OSNs). Today, sophisticated attackers are creating realistic Sybils ...
Measuring the Insecurity of Mobile Deep Links of Android
(USENIX, 2017-08)
Mobile deep links are URIs that point to specific locations within apps, which are instrumental to web-to-app communications. Existing “scheme URLs” are known to have hijacking vulnerabilities where one app can freely ...
Detecting Malicious Landing Pages in Malware Distribution Networks
(IEEE, 2013-06)
Drive-by download attacks attempt to compromise a victim’s computer through browser vulnerabilities. Often they are launched from Malware Distribution Networks (MDNs) consisting of landing pages to attract traffic, ...
Supporting Adaptive Brain and Behavior: The Abecedarian Approach to Social, Educational, and Health Disparities
(Virginia Tech, 2017-11-30)
This paper places the Abecedarian Approach in theoretical and historical context and reviews the results from 3 randomized controlled trials that have tested an experimental protocol designed to prevent cognitive disabilities ...
32nd Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Research Symposium: Beyond Boundaries, Across Disciplines
(Virginia Tech, 2016-03-23)
The Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Research Symposium & Exposition is a unique opportunity for graduate and advanced undergraduate students to bring together ideas and research findings from different disciplines by ...
Building Community Resilience and Supporting Vulnerable Populations: Social Networks and Community Capacity
(Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2009-06-23)
Sensory Chairs: A System for Biosignal Research and Performance
(NIME, 2008-06)
Music and sound have the power to provoke strong emotional and physical responses within us. Although concepts such as emotion can be hard to quantify in a scientific manner there has been significant research into how the ...