Innovations Newsletter | Volume 5

I N N O V A T I O N W O R K S

ROOTED IN THE HARDWARE

As the internet continues to grow and our dependence on devices such as our phones, computers, and tablets increases, so does the security risk and vulnerability. Information such as addresses, birthdays, social security numbers and more can be exposed instantly without the proper protections. While some may assume that those protections are embedded in the device software, a brief conversation with Kevin Kornegay, PhD of the School of Engineering will have you thinking differently.

WHAT DRIVES INNOVATION?

Innovation Drivers are the factors that drive both “big I” (new and potentially disruptive innovation), and “little i” (incremental) innovation. Common drivers of organizational innovation include: consumer need, improved quality, creation of new markets, reduced labor and material costs, improved efficiency, reduced environmental damage and energy consumption, and conformance to regulations. Innovators themselves may be driven by a personal or emotional connection

Each issue of Innovation Works will provide the reader a window on what drives Morgan’s innovators.

Prior to joining Morgan in 2012, Dr Kornegay was an electrical engineer by trade who built and designed electrical systems for industry and academia, including for IBM, Purdue University, Cornell University, and Georgia Tech His natural progression from reverse engineering hardware to hardware security was seamless In conversation with Dr Kornegay about the foundations of cybersecurity, you will quickly learn that: “It’s all in the hardware Trust is established in the hardware, the root of everything; Cyber is the trust business. Any and every vulnerability within systems and software is through exploitations of the hardware. Adversaries find the openings (vulnerabilities) in the software and the damage is done.” He emphasizes that communication to hardware can be intercepted, and control can be relinquished, further exposing data and other vulnerable information. He continues to seek innovative approaches that will improve quality, efficiency, and address the consumer need for secure devices and systems.

Dr. Kevin Kornegay photographed with a colleague and a student.

ROOTED IN THE HARDWARE

This innovation takes place in Morgan’s Cybersecurity and Assurance Policy Center, referred to as the CAP Center, where Dr. Kornegay serves as the center director. He provides guidance to staff and students, focusing on hardware reverse engineering and security vulnerabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT). Within the Center, NSA researchers work side-by-side with students to further cybersecurity as the field evolves, especially as the use of artificial intelligence expands, providing additional need for enhanced security and hardware infrastructure

As an advocate for minority advancement in STEM fields, Dr. Kornegay is proud that the CAP Center is reflective of his efforts to graduate minority PhDs – in which the CAP center is among the leaders for output throughout the University. He believes that graduate programs should reflect the undergraduate student population; the CAP center states that 30% of their graduates are women and 83% are African American in both undergraduate and graduate programs – meeting the goal of: “PhD production.” Through various programs within the community, Dr. Kornegay intends to maintain those graduation rates for years to come. A stat that he is most proud of is the number of minority PhD holders produced by the CAP Center, and he’s especially proud of the female graduates, as the STEM fields are often male dominated.

The CAP Center has a program that is helping to develop a pipeline of minority PhDs starting at the middle school level, specifically young women The Females are CyberStars (FACS) program is a summer program that allows participants to gain exposure to the fundamentals of cybersecurity through hands-on activities, engage with STEM leaders through female mentors in the field, and develop confidence through personal development and character activities The FACS program exposes young women in the greater Baltimore area to the cybersecurity field and shows them the possibilities available to them in pursuing the field upon reaching college The mentors provide an example of the lucrative opportunities available in the career field The foundation of the PhD pipeline is rooted in this program and allows Morgan to engage and serve their neighboring community, furthering the economic impact of the university.

Dr. Kornegay’s efforts have a direct impact on the vision Dr. Wilson has of the University achieving R1 research status. When asked what R1 designation translates to as an undergraduate student who is unfamiliar with its value, or someone outside of the higher education, Kornegay simply states emphatically, “ resources. ” “The additional resources will have a domino effect and provide more access and enable the University to continue to plant the seed for the next level of education.

Dr. Kevin Kornegay photographed with the CAP Center team.

INNOVATION AT MORGAN

Intellectual Property Disclosures

Innovations from: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023

Physical Science Innovations

Anticancer Rhenium Complexes Against Breast, Colon, and Pancreatic Cancers

Dr Santosh Mandal

Hybrid Renewable Energy System

Dr. Dong Hee Kang, Erjon Rembeci, Enrique Pajardo

Culturing Method for Soft Shell Clams

Dr Ming Liu, Brittany Wolfe-Bryant, Jon Farrington

Methods for Altering Substrate Specificity of a Bacterial Capsule Polymerase

Dr. Pumtiwitt McCarthy, Dr. James Wachira, Subhadra Paudel

Soft Shell Clam Deployment Cage and Sieve Gear Type

Brittany Wolfe-Bryant, Jon Farrington

Multi-stage Thermal Desalination

Dr. Dong Hee Kang, Erjon Rembeci, Enrique Pajardo

Unmanned Aerial System Safety Assurance with Explainable

Dr Kevin Kornegay, Denzel Hamilton

Soft Shell Clam Hanging Sand Cages

Leigh Wolfe-Bryant

Golf Training Apparatus

Al Wilson, Wayne Swann

N N O V

Detection and Survival Method against Adversarial Attacks on Automated Driving Systems

Dr. Kevin Kornegay, Shelaniece Clash, Dr. Md Tanvir Arafin

Jamming Detection and Mitigation Methods for Low Powered Wide Area Networks

Dr Kevin Kornegay, Sean Richardson

Framed Soft Shell Clam Bags

Leigh Wolfe-Bryant

Life Science Innovations

Supported Drug Formulations Showing Delayed Release and a MechanoChemical Method of Their Preparation

Dr. Alexandr Samokhvalov

Enhanced System for Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. Simon Nyaga

Biocrude Production from Cyanobacteria via Hydrothermal Liquefaction

Dr. Viji Sitther, Dr. Samson Gichuki, Dr. Benham Tabatabai, Yavuz Yalcin

Life Science Innovations continued

Methods to Promote Cyanobacterial Growth, Pigment Accumulation and ATP

Synthase Function with TiO2 Nanoparticles

Dr. Viji Sitther, Mst. Sayadujjhara

Combination Drug Therapy in Cancer Treatment

Dr Simon Nyaga

Methods to Enhance Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria

Dr. Viji Sitther, Mst. Sayadujjhara, Dr. Roshan Paudel

Low-Salinity and Disease Resistant Diploid Oysters

Dr. Ming Liu

Methods to Diagnose Small and Large Fiber Neuropathy

Timothy Meeker

Pharmaceutical Shaped Bodies for Delayed Drug Release

Dr. Alexandr Samokhvalov

Method for Quantitative Analysis of Natural Products Using Machine Learning and Spectroscopic Data

Jiangnan Peng, Hua Deng, Dr. Hongtao Yu

Fast Growth and Low-Salinity Maryland Oysters

Dr. Ming Liu

Information Science Innovations

LIDAR-Based Traffic Mobility and Safety Data in Baltimore City

Dr Mansoureh Jeihani

Nursing Social Justice Collaborative

Maija Anderson, Jacqueline Callari-Robinson, Margaret Glembocki, Elizabeth Louden

Method to Extract Ca2+ Spark Attributes at Subcellar Level

Dr Roshan Paudel, Dr Moshin Saleet Jafri

Efficient Biomass Pre-Drying Process for a Feeding Hopper System

Dr. Seong Lee, Fadipe Opeyemi, Mohammed Haruna, Nasirudeen Raji, Oludayo Samuel Alamu

Nursing Social Justice Collaborative

Maija Anderson, Jacqueline Callari-Robinson, Margaret Glembocki, Elizabeth Louden

Clinical Assessment Instrument

Maija Anderson, Kim Dobson-Sydnor, Angela Davis, Pawn Johnson-Hunter

Project Complexity Assessment Instrument

Abirami Radhakrishan, Dr Sanjay Bapna, Joel Weymouth, Dr Gregory Ramsey, Akeila Richter

I N N O V A T I O N W O R K S

Information Science Innovations continued

Method to Link Clinical Faculty with Teaching Institutions

Maija Anderson, Kim Dobson-Sydnor, Angela Davis, Pawn Johnson-Hunter

Permission Blockchain-based Network Among Hospitals Invovled in Interfacilty Transport Care

Shirin Hasavari

A Methodology for Digital Cognitive Debiasing

Gabriella Waters

Safe Intersection for Vulnerable Road Users

Dr Mansoureh Jeihani, Anam Ardeshiri, Alireza Ansariyar

MORGAN ISSUED PATENTS

Issued: CY2023

#11,543,429

Nanoscale Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Electrode MethodIssued 1/3/2023

Dr Birol Ozturk, Alperen Guver, Dr Peker Milas

#11,565,711

System and Method for Generating Vehicle Speed Alerts - Issued 1/31/2023

Dr. Mansoureh Jeihani, Samira Ahangari, Zohreh Rashidi Moghaddam

#11,583,470

Pulmonary Vest for Electro-sonic Stimulation TreatmentIssued 2/21/2023

Dr. Timothy Akers, Dr. Kofi Nyarko, Dr. Gregory Ramsey, Cassandra Dickerson

#11,595,434

Method and System for Intrusion Detection - Issued 2/28/2023

Dr Wondimu Zegeye, Dr Richard Dean, Dr Farzad Moazzami

#11,655,446

Method for Using Bivalve Waste as Media for Micro-Algal ProductionIssued 5/23/2023

Dr Thomas Ihde, Rebekah Borgert

#11,687,717

System and Method for Monitoring and Routing of Computer Traffic for Cyber Threat Risk Embedded in Electronic Documents - Issued 6/27/2023

Dr. Garfield Jones

#11,705,017

Supply Chain Management Instructional Board Game - Issued 7/18/2023

Dr. Ziping Wang

MORGAN ISSUED PATENTS

#11,716,236

Systems and Methods for OFDM Performance Enhancement on Frequency Selective Fading Channels - Issued 8/1/2023

Dr. Richard Dean, Tasmeer Alam

#11,756,138

System and method for Stormwater Utility management - Issued 9/12/2023

Dr James Hunter, Dr Dong Hee Kang, Hye Joeng Lee

#11,766,031

System and Method for Promoting Attachment and Growth of Bivalve Organisms on Coastal Structures - Issued 9/26/2023

Dr Thomas Ihde, Richard Lacouture, Amber Demarr

#11,782,011

Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Biosensors - Issued 10/10/2023

Yongchao Zhang, Aeshah Alsheri

#11,810,215

System and Method for Public Housing Evaluation - Issued 11/7/2023

Jacqueline Holland

#11,284,700

Systems and Methods for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) Reduction in OFDM Signals - Issued 11/21/2023

Dr. Richard Dean

I-BITS

Innovation Insights, Session 3

Wednesday, May 15

12 p.m.

Click here to register.

The Office of Technology Transfer will host the final installment of our three-part Innovation Insights series that covered topics including innovation, intellectual property and patents and economic development.

All Innovations Insights sessions will be available for viewing via the Office of Technology Transfer website in June 2024.

Science Magazine featured articles

The Office of Technology Transfer has partnered with Science Magazine for an awareness campaign to highlight various MSU State sponsored Centers and our ascension to R1 Research University destination. The main goal of this CY 20232024 project is to support a well-respected, well-known and well-rounded external view of the institution A second goal is to provide foundational support ahead of achieving R1 status and support a longer-term increase in Carnegie metrics through increased visibility of the institution. Click below to view the first two featured articles in the series of six.

Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity Article Urban Health Impact Article

I N N O V A T I O N W O R K S

ROOTED IN HARDWARE

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The designation will position Morgan to address a void in the in the HBCU research infrastructure and closing the digital divide between predominantly white institutions and HBCUs ” As the home of Maryland’s first Secure Embedded Systems PhD program in Maryland, and home of the most minority graduates in STEM statewide, Morgan is poised to attain R1 status as additional research funding is secured, and the graduate schools can subsequently graduate a larger number of doctoral degree holders.

Dr Kornegay’s dedication to innovation and providing experiential learning experiences to his students is evident As a university leader in intellectual property disclosure submissions in the Information science category among his colleagues, as well as including at least one student on over 50% of his active disclosures Dr Kornegay’s hands-on learning experiences has enabled two of his students to be named on issued U S patents as co-inventors, and he has equipped them with knowledge that will prove beneficial once they enter the workforce upon graduation He is also a two-time winner of the Innovator of the Year award for his contributions to the Smart Antenna System in 2021 and the Detection and Survival Method against Adversarial Attacks on Automated Systems in 2022.

Dr. Kornegay’s accolades continue to speak for themselves as he prepares undergraduates and graduate students to thrive in the workforce, while also reaching out to adolescents and effectively shaping their career path. Innovation never takes a day off in his lab, nor is the vision of PhD production ever altered as he continues his part in, “Growing the Future, Leading the World.”

CAP Center cybersecurity hardware innovations.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

Innovation: GAN Augmented Text Anomaly Detection Method

Inventors: Mariem Ben Fadhel, Dr Kofi Nyarko

School/College: School of Engineering

Innovation Drivers: Consumer need, improved quality, and efficiency

Summary: The invention relates to identifying anomalous data, including malicious text data that can be embedded in text documents, based on a certain set of measures. The invention is a framework for anomaly detection that incorporates a deep multi-layer neural network for data augmentation and classification, which improves at recognizing anomalous data with experience The anomalous data may be detected from among any type of data collection, but the invention is especially useful for detecting text anomalies.

Commercialization Potential: This innovation is one of multiple technologies available for licensing to commercial entities in the rapidly growing cybersecurity sphere More specifically, GAN neural networks are growing in demand, and this novel method would increase effectiveness in protection against anomalies.

Economic & Social Impact: The global neural network software market was estimated at $830 billion in 2020 and projected to increase at a rapid rate of 35% to $5066 billion in 2026. The innovation addresses current market needs by providing enhanced stability, quality, and classification of detected outliers to GAN neural networks.

Innovation: Multi-Layer Hidden Markov Model Based Intrusion Detection System

Inventors: Dr. Wondimu Zegeye, Dr. Farzad Moazzami, Dr. Richard Dean

School/College: School of Business & Management, Information Science & Systems

Innovation Drivers: improved quality, consumer need

Summary: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) that incorporate machine learning and artificial intelligence can significantly improve network defense against intruders. This technology can be trained to learn and identify uncommon patterns given a massive volume of traffic and notify system administrators for investigation This enhanced IDS design makes use of machine learning algorithms such as Hidden Markov Model (HMM) using a multi-layer approach. This approach has been verified to resolve common flaws in the application of HMM to IDS. It factors the key problem of dimensionality to a discrete set of manageable elements The multi-layer approach can be expanded beyond two layers to capture multi-phase attacks over longer spans of time.

Commercialization Potential: A U.S. patent was issued in February 2023. This technology addresses vulnerabilities that cannot be detected by existing traffic monitoring tools and improves the state of intrusion detection systems and applies it in layered form to cover multiple forms of attacks over longer durations. All industries including government, finance, healthcare and more that interact and engage with secure information can benefit from the technology

Economic & Social Impact: The IDS market is estimated at $4.6 billion in 2020 and anticipated to grow to $6.2 billion by 2025. The potential of this technology to significantly enhance defense against the ever-growing army intruders and hackers presents an intriguing opportunity to impact this industry

K S INNOVATION OF THE YEAR AWARDS

The Innovation of the Year Awards celebrate Innovation at Morgan and recognize the innovative contributions of University faculty, staff, and students in a number of categories These categories include: innovations in life, physical and information sciences; U S Patent awardees (selected from intellectual property disclosure submissions) and student, instructional and staff innovations

The 2023 ceremony was held in the University Student Center on November 15, 2023

Intellectual Property Innovation Awardees

Physical Science Awardee

Quantum Sensing Device

Dr. Birol Ozturk, Dr. Peker Milas, Sheikh Mahtab

Information Science Awardee

Machine Learning Method for Quantitative Cyber Risk Management

Dr Wondimu Zegeye, Dr Richard Dean, Dr Farzad Moazzami

Life Science Awardee

Anticancer Rhenium Complexes Against Breast, Colon, and Pancreatic Cancers

Dr Santosh Mandal

Tarrin Morgan II I N N O V A T

Morgan Community Innovator Awardees

Student Innovator of the Year

Shelaniece Clash

Instructional Innovator of the Year

Dr. Gonzalo Baptista

Staff Innovator of the Year

Office of Technology Transfer

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