{"id":159,"date":"2025-01-22T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyberimpact1\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:42:39","slug":"awards-and-recognitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/home\/awards-and-recognitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Recognitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\ud83c\udfc5<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Certificate of Completion \u2014 <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Issued by: Coastal Virginia Center for Cyber Innovation (COVA CCI) \u2014 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative \u00b7 April 17, 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38189\/2026\/04\/Carl-Lochstampfor-COVA-Cert-of-Completion.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Carl-Lochstampfor-COVA-Cert-of-Completion<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awarded upon successful completion of the COVA CCI Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program \u2014 a competitively selected, mentor-guided independent research program funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong><em>IEEE CNS 2026<\/em><\/strong> for peer review and archived as a preprint on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">arXiv<\/span><\/strong> (arxiv.org\/abs\/2604.11752).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd17\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2604.11752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Archived preprinted version of the paper on arXiv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd17\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covacci.org\/undergraduate-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about the COVA CCI Undergraduate Research Program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\ud83c\udfc5<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Best CYSE 250 Networking &amp; Python Project<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38189\/2025\/12\/CYSE-250-Award-for-Networking-Python-Carl-2025.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">CYSE-250-Award-for-Networking-Python-Carl-2025<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awarded 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project supervised and certificate issued by Lecturer, Professor Hind Aldabagh in the School of Cybersecurity, ODU <strong>(December 2025)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-normal-icon-size has-visible-labels has-icon-color has-icon-background-color is-style-default is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-layout-1 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000; \" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-chain has-white-color has-black-background-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\"https:\/\/www.credly.com\/users\/carl-lochstampfor-jr noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/CLochstampfor60\/file_system_project\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M15.6,7.2H14v1.5h1.6c2,0,3.7,1.7,3.7,3.7s-1.7,3.7-3.7,3.7H14v1.5h1.6c2.8,0,5.2-2.3,5.2-5.2,0-2.9-2.3-5.2-5.2-5.2zM4.7,12.4c0-2,1.7-3.7,3.7-3.7H10V7.2H8.4c-2.9,0-5.2,2.3-5.2,5.2,0,2.9,2.3,5.2,5.2,5.2H10v-1.5H8.4c-2,0-3.7-1.7-3.7-3.7zm4.6.9h5.3v-1.5H9.3v1.5z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label\">GitHub Repository<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc5Certificate of Completion \u2014 Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program Issued by: Coastal Virginia Center for Cyber Innovation (COVA CCI) \u2014 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative \u00b7 April 17, 2026 Awarded upon successful completion of the COVA CCI Cyber Scholars Undergraduate Cybersecurity Research Program \u2014 a competitively selected, mentor-guided independent research program funded by the Commonwealth of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/home\/awards-and-recognitions\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30379,"featured_media":0,"parent":120,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/2464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}