🏅Certificate of Completion —
Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program
Issued by: Coastal Virginia Center for Cyber Innovation (COVA CCI) — Commonwealth Cyber Initiative · April 17, 2026
Carl-Lochstampfor-COVA-Cert-of-CompletionAwarded upon successful completion of the COVA CCI Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program — a competitively selected, mentor-guided independent research program funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Research conducted through this program produced COVA (Cognitive Operations Virtual Assistant), a multi-agent LLM framework for synthetic elder fraud conversation generation and detection. The work resulted in a research paper submitted to IEEE CNS 2026 for peer review and archived as a preprint on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2604.11752).
🔗 Archived preprinted version of the paper on arXiv
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🏅Best CYSE 250 Networking & Python Project
CYSE-250-Award-for-Networking-Python-Carl-2025Awarded for achieving the best CYSE 250 project implementation and presentation in the technical field of Networking and Programming. The project emphasized applied networking principles, Python-based problem solving, and secure system design within an academic cybersecurity environment at Old Dominion University.
Project supervised and certificate issued by Lecturer, Professor Hind Aldabagh in the School of Cybersecurity, ODU (December 2025).