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\u00a0[ (*) = undergraduate student co-author; (+) = graduate student co-author ]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Multidisciplinary and\/or experiential learning papers are marked with a (#)<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Forthcoming<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Park, H.(+)<\/sup>, Snee, J.(*)<\/sup> (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<\/i><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Park, H.(+)<\/sup>, Spence, G.(+)<\/sup>, Williams, K., Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup> , Snee, J.(*)<\/sup> & Rege, A. (forthcoming). “Fostering Civic Engagement in Students Through Community-Driven Cyberhygiene Training for Older Adults”. Journal of Criminal Justice Education.<\/p>\n

(#) <\/strong>Park, H. (+)<\/sup>, Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, Snee, J. (*)<\/sup> & Rege, A. (forthcoming). \u201cExperiential Learning on Pig Butchering Scams in Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice Education\u201d. Proceedings from the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(#) <\/strong>Snee, J. (*)<\/sup>, Park, H. (+)<\/sup>, Keo, G. (*)<\/sup>, Dobisch, J., Pote, S. & Rege, A. (forthcoming). \u201cAttack to Defend: A Pilot Course on Developing Adversarial Thinking, AI-Enhanced Social Engineering, and Penetration Testing\u201d. Proceedings from the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#) <\/strong>Rege, A., Featherson, M.(*)<\/sup>, Swope, J.(*)<\/sup>, & Bleiman, R(+)<\/sup>. (2025). Manipulating Minds with Machines: A Cybersecurity Course Project on AI-Enhanced Social Engineering Attacks. In\u00a02025 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISEC64801.2025.11147334<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Park, H.(+)<\/sup>, Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, & 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)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISEC64801.2025.11147395<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, Park, H.(+)<\/sup> & 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<\/a><\/p>\n

2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., & Bleiman, R(+)<\/sup>. (2024). A Case Study of a Ransomware and Social Engineering Competition. In The International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media<\/i> (pp. 149-168). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-981-96-0401-2_9<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Spence, G. (+)<\/sup>, Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, Mitchell, S. & Latko, J. (2024). Bridging the \u2018town and gown\u2019 divide: Experiential learning for students via a community cyberhygiene training program. In 2024 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISEC61299.2024.10664800<\/a><\/p>\n

2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, Williams, K(+)<\/sup>. (2023). The relevance of social engineering competitions in cybersecurity education. In\u00a0The International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media<\/i> (pp. 365-381). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-981-99-6974-6_20<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Williams, J., Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup> & Williams, K.(+)<\/sup> (2023). Students\u2019 Application of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Via A Real-Time Cybersecurity Exercise. In\u00a0Proceedings from the 22nd European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Rege, A. & Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>. (2022). \u00a0In\u00a0Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media: Cyber Science 2022; 20\u201321 June; Wales<\/i> (pp. 25-37). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-981-19-6414-5_2<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Bleiman, R. (+)<\/sup>, Williams, J., Rege, A. & Williams, K.(+)<\/sup>. (2022). In\u00a0Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media: Cyber Science 2022; 20\u201321 June; Wales<\/i> (pp. 133-149). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-981-19-6414-5_8<\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams, K.(+)<\/sup>, Bleiman, R.(+)<\/sup>, & Rege, A. (2022). Educating educators on social engineering Experiences developing and implementing a social engineering workshop for all education levels. In\u00a02022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 188-194). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISEC54952.2022.10025154<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A.& Bleiman, R. (+)<\/sup>. (2022). Collegiate social engineering capture the flag competition. In\u00a02021 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)<\/i>\u00a0(pp. 1-11). IEEE. Winner of<\/em> Best Student Paper Award. <\/em>DOI:10.1109\/eCrime54498.2021.9738746<\/a><\/p>\n

2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bleiman, R. (+)<\/sup>, Ducoste, M.(+)<\/sup> & Rege, A. (2021). Understanding cybercriminals through analysis of penetration testing group dynamics. In\u00a02021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/CyberSA52016.2021.9478252<\/a><\/p>\n

Ducoste, M. (+)<\/sup>, Bleiman, R. (+)<\/sup>, Nguyen, T (+)<\/sup> & Rege, A. (2021). \u00a0An Examination of Industry Standards of Success within Penetration Testing Groups. In\u00a02021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 56-62). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109\/ISEC52395.2021.9764146<\/a><\/p>\n

2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Williams, K. (+), Ducoste, M. (+) & Rege, A. (2020). Educating multidisciplinary undergraduates on security and privacy. In\u00a02020 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109\/CyberSA49311.2020.9139721<\/a><\/p>\n

Rege, A. & Bleiman, R. (*). (2020). Ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure. In\u00a0Proc. 20th Eur. Conf. Cyber Warfare Security<\/i>\u00a0(p. 324).<\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> 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<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Rege, A., Nguyen, T. (+), & Bleiman, R. (*). (2020). A social engineering awareness and training workshop for STEM students and practitioners. In\u00a02020 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISEC49744.2020.9280596<\/a><\/p>\n

Rege, A., Yang, S., Mendlein, A. (+), Williams, K. (+), Su, S (+) & Moskal, S. (+). (2020). Dissecting Cyberadversarial Intrusion Stages via Interdisciplinary Observations. In\u00a0Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics<\/i> (pp. 71-77). DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3375708.3380317<\/a><\/p>\n

Bleiman, R. (*) & Rege, A. (2020). \u201cThe susceptibility of humans in disclosing sensitive information\u201d. Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting<\/i> (Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 1867-1871). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1071181319631534<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Mendlein, A. (+) & Williams, K. (+) (2019). Security and privacy education for STEM undergraduates: a shoulder surfing course project. In\u00a02019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)<\/i> (pp. 1-7). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/FIE43999.2019.9028560<\/a><\/p>\n

Rege, A. & Adams, J. (2019). The need for more sophisticated cyber-physical systems war gaming exercises. In\u00a0ECCWS 2019 18th European conference on cyber warfare and security<\/i>\u00a0(p. 403). Academic Conferences and publishing limited.<\/p>\n

Rege, A., VanZant, S. (2019). Examining the Roles of Muhajirahs in the Islamic State via Twitter. In\u00a02019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE.\u00a0Winner of best paper award<\/i>. DOI:10.1109\/CyberSA.2019.8899639<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Williams, K. (+) & Mendlein, A. (+) (2019). A social engineering course project for undergraduate students across multiple disciplines. In\u00a02019 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security)<\/i> (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/CyberSecPODS.2019.8885085<\/a><\/p>\n

Asadi, N. (+), Rege, A., Obradovic, Z. (2019). Pattern discovery in intrusion chains and adversarial movement. In\u00a02019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA)<\/i> (pp. 1-4). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/CyberSA.2019.8899391<\/a><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Williams, K. (+) & Mendlein, A. (+) (2019). An experiential learning cybersecurity project for multiple STEM undergraduates. In\u00a02019 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)<\/i> (pp. 169-176). IEEE. DOI:10.1109\/ISECon.2019.8882112<\/a><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

Asadi, N. (+), Rege, A. & Obradovic, Z. (2018). \u201cAnalysis of Adversarial Movement Through Characteristics of Graph Topological Ordering\u201d. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA).<\/p>\n

Dobson, G., Rege, A. & Carley, K. (2018). Informing Active Cyber Defense with Realistic Adversarial Behavior.\u00a0Journal of Information Warfare<\/span>.\u00a017(2): 16-31.<\/p>\n

Dobson, G., Rege, A. & Carley, K. (2018). Virtual Cyber Warfare Experiments based on Empirically Observed Adversarial Intrusion Chain Behavior.\u00a0Proceedings from the 13th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security.<\/p>\n

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<\/span> PP(99):1-1.\u00a0Impact Factor 2.374.<\/em><\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yang, S. J., Rege, A. & Kuhl, M. E. (2017). “Learning, Simulating and Predicting Adversary Attack Behaviors for Proactive Cyber Defense<\/a>“, in Proceedings of NATO IST-152 Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defence and Resilience<\/a>, pp. 30-34, October 18-20, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Biswas, S., Bai, L., Parker, E. (+) & McJunkin, T. (2017). \u201cUsing Simulators to Assess Knowledge and Behavior of \u201cNovice\u201d Operators of Critical Infrastructure under Cyberattack Events\u201d. In Resilience Week (RWS), 2017 (pp. 50-56). IEEE.<\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> Rege, A., Parker, E. (+) & McJunkin, T. (2017). \u201cUsing a Critical Infrastructure Game to Provide Realistic Observation of the Human in the Loop by Criminal Justice Students\u201d. In Resilience Week (RWS), 2017 (pp. 154-160). IEEE.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019l Conf. Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA 2017), London, UK, June 2017.<\/p>\n

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\u2019l Conf. Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), Washington DC, July 2017.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> 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).<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

(#)<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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)<\/span>. 11(4): 463-487. Impact Factor 0.566<\/p>\n

Rege, A. (2014). Digital Information Warfare Trends in Eurasia. Security Journal<\/span>, 27(2): 374-398. Impact factor 0.341<\/p>\n


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