[ (*) = undergraduate student co-author; (+) = graduate student co-author ]
Multidisciplinary and/or experiential learning papers are marked with a (#).
Forthcoming
(#) Rege, A., Park, H.(+), Snee, J.(*) (forthcoming). “Artificial Intelligence as a Force Multiplier in Social Engineering: An Experiential Learning Approach”. In The International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media
(#) Park, H.(+), Spence, G.(+), Williams, K., Bleiman, R.(+) , Snee, J.(*) & Rege, A. (forthcoming). “Fostering Civic Engagement in Students Through Community-Driven Cyberhygiene Training for Older Adults”. Journal of Criminal Justice Education.
(#) Park, H. (+), Bleiman, R.(+), Snee, J. (*) & Rege, A. (forthcoming). “Experiential Learning on Pig Butchering Scams in Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice Education”. Proceedings from the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC).
(#) Snee, J. (*), Park, H. (+), Keo, G. (*), Dobisch, J., Pote, S. & Rege, A. (forthcoming). “Attack to Defend: A Pilot Course on Developing Adversarial Thinking, AI-Enhanced Social Engineering, and Penetration Testing”. Proceedings from the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC).
2025
(#) Rege, A., Featherson, M.(*), Swope, J.(*), & Bleiman, R(+). (2025). Manipulating Minds with Machines: A Cybersecurity Course Project on AI-Enhanced Social Engineering Attacks. In 2025 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISEC64801.2025.11147334
(#) Park, H.(+), Bleiman, R.(+), & Rege, A. (2025). Understanding Behavioral and Psychological Aspects of Employment and Tax Scams via a Social Engineering Competition. In 2025 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISEC64801.2025.11147395
(#) Bleiman, R.(+), Park, H.(+) & Rege, A. (2025). “Educating students on the behavioral and psychological aspects of romance scam victimization via a social engineering competition”. Journal of Cybersecurity Education Research and Practice (JCERP): Vol 2025: No 1, Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.62915/2472-2707.1204
2024
(#) Rege, A., & Bleiman, R(+). (2024). A Case Study of a Ransomware and Social Engineering Competition. In The International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media (pp. 149-168). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0401-2_9
(#) Rege, A., Spence, G. (+), Bleiman, R.(+), Mitchell, S. & Latko, J. (2024). Bridging the ‘town and gown’ divide: Experiential learning for students via a community cyberhygiene training program. In 2024 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISEC61299.2024.10664800
2023
(#) Rege, A., Bleiman, R.(+), Williams, K(+). (2023). The relevance of social engineering competitions in cybersecurity education. In The International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media (pp. 365-381). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6974-6_20
(#) Rege, A., Williams, J., Bleiman, R.(+) & Williams, K.(+) (2023). Students’ Application of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Via A Real-Time Cybersecurity Exercise. In Proceedings from the 22nd European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.
Rege, A. & Bleiman, R.(+). (2022). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media: Cyber Science 2022; 20–21 June; Wales (pp. 25-37). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6414-5_2
(#) Bleiman, R. (+), Williams, J., Rege, A. & Williams, K.(+). (2022). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media: Cyber Science 2022; 20–21 June; Wales (pp. 133-149). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6414-5_8
2022
Williams, K.(+), Bleiman, R.(+), & Rege, A. (2022). Educating educators on social engineering Experiences developing and implementing a social engineering workshop for all education levels. In 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 188-194). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISEC54952.2022.10025154
(#) Rege, A.& Bleiman, R. (+). (2022). Collegiate social engineering capture the flag competition. In 2021 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) (pp. 1-11). IEEE. Winner of Best Student Paper Award. DOI:10.1109/eCrime54498.2021.9738746
2021
Bleiman, R. (+), Ducoste, M.(+) & Rege, A. (2021). Understanding cybercriminals through analysis of penetration testing group dynamics. In 2021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/CyberSA52016.2021.9478252
Ducoste, M. (+), Bleiman, R. (+), Nguyen, T (+) & Rege, A. (2021). An Examination of Industry Standards of Success within Penetration Testing Groups. In 2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 56-62). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764146
2020
(#) Williams, K. (+), Ducoste, M. (+) & Rege, A. (2020). Educating multidisciplinary undergraduates on security and privacy. In 2020 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/CyberSA49311.2020.9139721
Rege, A. & Bleiman, R. (*). (2020). Ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure. In Proc. 20th Eur. Conf. Cyber Warfare Security (p. 324).
(#) Mendlein, A. (+), Nguyen, T. (+) & Rege, A. (2020). Cybersecurity awareness and training through a multidisciplinary OSINT course project. In 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access.
Rege, A., Nguyen, T. (+), & Bleiman, R. (*). (2020). A social engineering awareness and training workshop for STEM students and practitioners. In 2020 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISEC49744.2020.9280596
Rege, A., Yang, S., Mendlein, A. (+), Williams, K. (+), Su, S (+) & Moskal, S. (+). (2020). Dissecting Cyberadversarial Intrusion Stages via Interdisciplinary Observations. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (pp. 71-77). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3375708.3380317
Bleiman, R. (*) & Rege, A. (2020). “The susceptibility of humans in disclosing sensitive information”. Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.
2019
Ulrich, T., Boring, R., McJunkin, T. & Rege, A. (2019). A visualization approach to performing task analysis of time series event log data from a microworld simulation. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 1867-1871). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181319631534
(#) Rege, A., Mendlein, A. (+) & Williams, K. (+) (2019). Security and privacy education for STEM undergraduates: a shoulder surfing course project. In 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028560
Rege, A. & Adams, J. (2019). The need for more sophisticated cyber-physical systems war gaming exercises. In ECCWS 2019 18th European conference on cyber warfare and security (p. 403). Academic Conferences and publishing limited.
Rege, A., VanZant, S. (2019). Examining the Roles of Muhajirahs in the Islamic State via Twitter. In 2019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. Winner of best paper award. DOI:10.1109/CyberSA.2019.8899639
(#) Rege, A., Williams, K. (+) & Mendlein, A. (+) (2019). A social engineering course project for undergraduate students across multiple disciplines. In 2019 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/CyberSecPODS.2019.8885085
Asadi, N. (+), Rege, A., Obradovic, Z. (2019). Pattern discovery in intrusion chains and adversarial movement. In 2019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/CyberSA.2019.8899391
(#) Rege, A., Williams, K. (+) & Mendlein, A. (+) (2019). An experiential learning cybersecurity project for multiple STEM undergraduates. In 2019 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) (pp. 169-176). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/ISECon.2019.8882112
2018
Asadi, N. (+), Rege, A. & Obradovic, Z. (2018). “An Assessment of Group Dynamics During Cyber Crime Through Temporal Network Topology”. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS).
Asadi, N. (+), Rege, A. & Obradovic, Z. (2018). “Analysis of Adversarial Movement Through Characteristics of Graph Topological Ordering”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA).
Dobson, G., Rege, A. & Carley, K. (2018). Informing Active Cyber Defense with Realistic Adversarial Behavior. Journal of Information Warfare. 17(2): 16-31.
Dobson, G., Rege, A. & Carley, K. (2018). Virtual Cyber Warfare Experiments based on Empirically Observed Adversarial Intrusion Chain Behavior. Proceedings from the 13th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.
Rege, A., Obradovic, Z., Asadi, N.(+), Parker, E.(+), Pandit, R.(*), Masceri, N.(*), Singer, B.(*) (2018) “Predicting Adversarial Cyber Intrusion Stages Using Autoregressive Neural Networks,” IEEE Intelligent Systems PP(99):1-1. Impact Factor 2.374.
2017
Yang, S. J., Rege, A. & Kuhl, M. E. (2017). “Learning, Simulating and Predicting Adversary Attack Behaviors for Proactive Cyber Defense“, in Proceedings of NATO IST-152 Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defence and Resilience, pp. 30-34, October 18-20, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.
(#) Rege, A., Biswas, S., Bai, L., Parker, E. (+) & McJunkin, T. (2017). “Using Simulators to Assess Knowledge and Behavior of “Novice” Operators of Critical Infrastructure under Cyberattack Events”. In Resilience Week (RWS), 2017 (pp. 50-56). IEEE.
(#) Rege, A., Parker, E. (+) & McJunkin, T. (2017). “Using a Critical Infrastructure Game to Provide Realistic Observation of the Human in the Loop by Criminal Justice Students”. In Resilience Week (RWS), 2017 (pp. 154-160). IEEE.
Rege, A., Adams, J., Parker, E. (+), Singer, B. (*), Masceri, N. (*) & Pandit, R. (*) (2017). “Using Cyber-security Exercises to Study Adversarial Intrusion Chains, Decision-Making, and Group Dynamics”. In ECCWS 2017 16th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (p. 351). Academic Conferences and publishing limited.
Rege, A., Obradovic, Z., Asadi, N.(+), Singer, B.(*), Masceri, N.(*), Heath, Q.(*). (2017). “A Temporal Assessment of Cyber Intrusion Chains Using Multidisciplinary Frameworks and Methodologies,” Proc. Int’l Conf. Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA 2017), London, UK, June 2017.
Rege, A., Obradovic, Z., Asadi, N.(+), Parker, E.(+), Masceri, N.(*), Singer, B(*), Pandit, R(*). (2017). “Using a Real-Time Cybersecurity Exercise Case Study to Understand Temporal Characteristics of Cyberattacks,” Proc. 2017 Int’l Conf. Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), Washington DC, July 2017.
Rege, A., Parker, E. (+), Singer, B.(*) & Masceri, N(*). (2017). A Qualitative Exploration of Adversarial Adaptability, Group Dynamics, and Cyber Intrusion Chains. Journal of Information Warfare. 16(3): 1-16.
Rege, A., Singer, B. (*), Masceri, N. (*) & Heath, Q. (*) (2017). Measuring Cyber Intrusion Chains, Adaptive Adversarial Behavior, and Group Dynamics. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.
2016
Rege, A. (2016). Incorporating the Human Element in Anticipatory and Dynamic Cyber Defense. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (ICCCF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
(#) McJunkin, T., Rieger, C., Rege, A., Biswas, S., Haney, M., Santora, M., Johnson, B., Boring, R., Naidu, D.S. & Gardner, J. (2016). Multidisciplinary Game Based Approach for Generating Student Enthusiasm in Addressing Critical Infrastructure Challenges. Proceedings of the 123rd American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
2015
(#) Rege, A. (2015). Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning for Holistic Cybersecurity Education, Research and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2015 USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games, and Gamification in Security Education.
2014
Rege, A., Ferrese, F., Biswas, S., & Bai, L. (2014). Adversary dynamics and smart grid security: A multiagent system approach. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). pp. 1-7. IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1469H-ART [ISBN: 978-1-4799-4187-2] DOI: 10.1109/ISRCS.2014.6900101.
Rege, A. (2014). A Criminological Perspective on Power Grid Cyberattacks: Using Routine Activities Theory and Rational Choice Perspective to Explore Adversarial Decision-Making. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM). 11(4): 463-487. Impact Factor 0.566
Rege, A. (2014). Digital Information Warfare Trends in Eurasia. Security Journal, 27(2): 374-398. Impact factor 0.341
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