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2024-01-27: LLM Driven Behavioral Analysis for Adaptive Intrusion Detection...
I am delighted to receive the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Grant for $100,000 to support our collaborative proposal, “Adaptive Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks Using LLM-Driven Behavioral Analysis...
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2025-02-10: Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads
Figure 1: Themes view for the web page we created to display ads from our datasetOne of the goals for the Saving Ads project was to create a dataset of advertisements from the live web. To construct...
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2025-02-11: Getting to the Source of the (Memento) Damage
I've previously written about the Memento Damage project, originally started by Dr. Justin Brunelle, a Web service designed to estimate the amount of damage to a web archive by assessing it's...
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2025-02-11: Tracking Political Trends Around US Presidential Election
The Computer Science Graduate Society (CSGS) of the Old Dominion University organized a Hackathon from October 24 to November 1, 2024. The competition featured three teams from the master's category...
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2025-02-25: A Rollercoaster of Deadlines, Discoveries, and Late-Night Snacks:...
It felt like yesterday when I first enrolled in Old Dominion University (ODU) to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019 (Muntabir's introduction). Fortunately, I was accepted to the Lab for Applied...
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2025-03-26: A Battle of Opinions: Tools vs. Humans (and Humans vs. Humans) in...
Introduction We analyzed the sentiment of 100 tweets using three sentiment analysis tools (TextBlob, VADER, and a RoBERTa-base model) and six human raters. To measure agreement, we calculated Cohen’s...
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2025-03-27: Establishing a Baseline by Administration for the Takedown of US...
Figure 1: A samhsa.gov page identified by the New York Times as removed under the second Trump administrationOn February 2, 2025, Ethan Singer (@ethanpsinger) published an article in the New York Times...
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Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information Infrastructure
Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information InfrastructureHerbert Van de Sompel and Michael L. NelsonNote: In the Summer of 2025, a shorter version of this blog post will be published as an...
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2025-04-15: Celebrating Global Collaboration and Innovation at ODU
We were honored to host Dr. Michael Herzog and his colleague Stefan Puest from Magdeburg-Stendal University for his annual visit to Hampton Roads. During his visit, he engaged with students and faculty...
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2025-05-06: Part 1 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionLarge Language Models (LLMs) have been omnipresent in the past few years and everyone, in one way or another, is using them. The most popular chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s...
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2025-05-06: Part 2 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionI discussed LLMs' hallucinations and demonstrated their inability to correctly cite Quranic verses using Google Gemini as an example in part 1 of this blog post. Google Gemini's answers to...
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2025-05-06: Part 3 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionBy the time I finished trying to reproduce the results in the paper I reviewed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog post, DeepSeek released its first free chatbot app DeepSeek-V3 on January...
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2025-05-08: Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF
I have the distinction, or dis-honor, of having all of my active federal research grants terminated by the current administration. None of the grants were researching anything especially controversial,...
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2025-05-12: ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC)...
The ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2025 conference took place on March 29, 2025, and it was hosted by the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. CAPWIC...
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2025-05-12: 2025 WS-DL Research Expo
On May 7, 2025, we held our fourth annual WS-DL Research Expo. We continued the same format as the prior years (2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short...
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2025-05-21: Paper Summary: "AccessMenu: Enhancing Usability of Online...
The ACM Web4All Conference (W4A) is the premier venue for research focused on web accessibility. It brings together a diverse community committed to making the web inclusive for users of all abilities...
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2025-05-24: ACM ICMI 2024 Trip Report
The 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024) was held from November 4 to 8 in San José, Costa Rica. This premier international forum brought together researchers and...
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2025-06-10: Comparing the Archival Rate of Arabic and English News Stories...
About 0.5% of websites publish their content in Arabic, occupying the 20th place among other languages; however, Arabic is the 6th most spoken language in the world at 3.4%. A considerable portion of...
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2025-06-11: Paper Summary: "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript"...
Figure 1: Jawa Overview. Figure from https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi22-goel.pdfWhile working on the Saving Ads project, we identified problems with replaying ads (technical report: “Archiving...
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2025-06-14: Reflecting on GAAD 2025 at ODU: A Deep‑Dive into "Accessible by...
Figure 1: A virtual slide from Old Dominion University's GAAD 2025 event highlights "Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)" during a hybrid session on inclusive design.Celebrating Global...
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2025-06-17: The 6th Research Infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web...
Siegen UniversityThe 6th RESAW (Research Infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference took place in Siegen, Germany from June 4 – June 6, 2025. The conference occurs every other...
View Article2025-06-24: GPU Hours Granted on Hypothesis Generation by Oak Ridge...
In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the LAMP-SYS Lab was granted 20,000 node hours on the Frontier supercomputer cluster and 2500 node hours on the Andes supercomputer cluster. This...
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2025-06-27: Paper Summary: MemoRAG: Moving towards Next-Gen RAG Via...
Comparison of Standard RAG systems and MemoRAG (Qian et al.)In my post “ALICE - AI Leveraged Information Capture and Exploration”, I proposed a system that unifies a Large Language Model (LLM) with a...
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2025-07-16: Understanding Hallucination in Large Language Models: Challenges...
Fig 1 from Rawte et al. Taxonomy for Hallucination in Large Foundation Model The rise of large language models (LLMs) has brought about accelerated advances in natural language processing (NLP),...
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2025-07-19: 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci) 2025 Trip Report
The 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2025) took place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New JerseyThe 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2025) was held from May 20–23 at Rutgers...
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