Research
Tennessee Tech University: Cookeville, TN
College of Engineering Distinguished Fellow- Applying Digital Twins to Cybersecurity in Smart Manufacturing
Create digital twins to simulate realistic manufacturing environments, and integrate them with other simulation models
Utilize machine learning to develop better security mechanisms, such as IDS and IPS for manufacturing systems
Assess and validate cyber threats, production processes, and security implementations on both digital and physical twins
Publication: B. Williams, G. Ciocarlie, K. Saleeby, M. Ismail and C. Mulkey, ”Digital Twin of Cyber-Physical CNC for Smart Manufacturing,” 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/DTPI59677.2023.10365463
CEROC Research Assistant: Security in Smart Manufacturing
Conducted data gathering and analysis of cybersecurity attacks in smart manufacturing
Presented and publish new discoveries that have been collected throughout the research process
Prepared reports of new findings, security measures, updated protocols, and research in smart manufacturing
Publication: B.Williams, M. Soulet, A. Siraj, ”A Taxonomy of Cyber Attacks in Smart Manufacturing Systems”, 6th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems, pp.77–97, (2022).
Berea College: BErea, KY
Computer Science Department Research Assistant: Digital Humanities
Collaborated with colleague to create a web crawler and web scraper using a Python library called BeautifulSoup
Traversed blog site of PMSS to extract visual/document photographs and their corresponding captions and transcripts
Problem solved to pair relevant data together and output metadata into the archiving platform of contentDM