Welcome to our 2025 Virtual Interns!

We’re excited to welcome three PhD candidates selected for funded virtual internships to port their Representative Experimentation Environments (REEs) to the SPHERE Research Infrastructure!

REEs are open-source artifacts from published cybersecurity and privacy research that can reproduce original results and have demonstrated value through reuse by other researchers. Integrating these artifacts into SPHERE ensures broader accessibility and long-term impact. 

Meet the Interns and their REEs:

• Allison Lu, PhD candidate, University of Florida
  Allison will be porting over 130 artifacts collected from 744 machine learning papers in Tier 1 cybersecurity conferences.
• Daniel Olszewski, PhD candidate, University of Florida
  Daniel will be porting over 170 security artifacts from 2,000 papers in Tier 2 cybersecurity conferences.
• Jade Sheffey, PhD candidate, UMass Amherst
  Jade will be integrating CensorLab–​​a research testbed designed to emulate and study internet censorship–into SPHERE, and expand its library of censorship algorithms.

These researchers will spend the summer porting their artifacts to run on the SPHERE testbed, where they will be available for other researchers to use. This will support SPHERE’s mission to foster reproducible experimentation across the cybersecurity community. We’re proud to have these talented researchers join the SPHERE initiative and look forward to the contributions they’ll make toward advancing cybersecurity and privacy research!

Contacts:

Allison Lu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allis0n-lu/

Daniel Olszewski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-o-40310991/

Jade Sheffey: https://packet.science/