
Pronouns: she/her
Bilingual: English, Hindi
👩💼Graduate Research Assistant at CyberTap
Quote of the day
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“You are stronger than you think, you have greater powers than you know”
——- from The Wonder Woman
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Hi, I’m Yansi Keim! I am a senior PhD Candidate in Cybersecurity the Department of CIT at the Purdue University, Indiana. I am honored to be advised by Dr. Marcus Rogers.
I am on the track to graduation in Spring 2025, thus looking for Potential roles: Cybersecurity Researcher | Cybersecurity Analyst | Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Coordinator | Technical Program Manager
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Research and Assistantship 📚
For my dissertation, I research Capture The Flag
competitions and their ****amalgamation in Undergraduate Education
to propose a hybrid model of education. To achieve such, I use
- NIST NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) model, and
- Quantitative Methods

Besides the research, I am also a Graduate Research Assistant
at **CyberTAP,** where I help my team in developing and delivering cybersecurity curriculum to professionals, tweak Blue Team playbooks for Cyber Range, and conduct in-house training using HackTheBox.
Leadership 👑
- I am an
Affiliate Advisor
at **WiCyS Northern Indiana Affiliate.** My role includes co-launching the affiliate (Oct 1st, 2024), and advising board to make strategic decisions to market their reach, recruit and retain Women in Cybersecurity.
- I am a
Student Cell Coordinator
at **Breaking Barriers Women in Cybersecurity (BBWIC).** My role is to educate our student members on meeting with grad student opportunities available in United States.
- Earlier, I served as the **
President
of **WiCyS Purdue Chapter. Under my leadership, we won the “Best Chapter Award at WiCyS 2022 Annual Conference”. My presidency marked with significant milestones such engaging 200+ members, conducting 10+ events per semester, and bringing first cohort of graduate students to the club.
✍️ Publications ✍️
- Diliberti, N., Chung, H., Keim, Y., Rogers, M., Karabiyik, U., Aggarwal,
S., ... & Pettus, C. (2023, July). Supporting and Motivating
Re-integration of Justice-Involved Individuals Through Dynamic
Gamification. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 258-275). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Keim, Y., & Mohapatra, A. K. (2022). Cyber threat intelligence framework using advanced malware forensics. International Journal of Information Technology, 14(1), 521-530.
- Keim, Y., Hutchinson, S., Shrivastava, A., & Karabiyik, U. (2022).
Forensic analysis of TikTok alternatives on android and iOS devices:
byte, Dubsmash, and Triller. Electronics, 11(18), 2972.
- Salam, A., Keim, Y., Hoang, A. D., Meghna, A., Martin, D. R., Guzman, G., Yoon, Y. H., ... & Fan, X. (2019). The future of emerging IoT paradigms:
architectures and technologies. Preprints, 2019120276, 1803020.
- Keim, Y., Yoon, Y. H., & Karabiyik, U. (2021). Digital forensics analysis of ubuntu touch on pinephone. Electronics, 10(3), 343.
- Keim, Y., Tyagi S., Gangwar K., (2016). Proactive Forensic Data Collection Framework for SaaS Consumer. Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management pp (195-201).
- Keim, Y., Bhardwaj, M., Saroop, S., & Tandon, A. (2014). Software cost estimation models and techniques: a survey. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, 3(2), 1763-1768.
📝Posters 📝
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Keim, Y and Rogers, MK (2023, March). THE BIG PICTURE: Capture the Flag Competitions for Cybersecurity Education and Curriculum at 23rd CERIAS Annual Conference.
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Keim, Y and Srivastava, A (2021, March). Forensic analysis of TikTok alternatives on android and iOS devices: byte, Dubsmash, and Triller, WiCyS Conference, 2021
🎖️🎖️🎖️Honorable Mention, “Grad Category” for Forensic analysis of TikTok alternatives on android and iOS devices: byte, Dubsmash, and Triller, WiCyS Conference, 2021
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Keim, Y and Singh S, Masiwal V (2018, January) Quick Response Codes for Scalable and Secure Forensic Solutions at 14th Annual IFIP 11.9 WG International Conference on Digital Forensics.
🎖️🎖️🎖️ Acted as Emcee for the entire conference, student member of Hospitality and Speaker Relations Committee
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Keim, Y and Tyagi, Sonali (2016, January) Pro-active Forensic Data Collection for SaaS Consumer at 12th Annual International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) 11.9 Working Group for Digital Forensics.
🎖️🎖️🎖️ Student Member of the Logistics Committee
🏫Scholarships 🏫
- Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS), LA, 2024
- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), TN, USA, 2024
- Day of Shecurity - India, 2024
- CERIAS Annual Security Symposium, IN, USA 2023
- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2023
- Women in LEADERSHIP (WIL Institute), IN, USA, 2023
- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), OH, USA, 2022
- Women in Forensic Computing Workshop, Oxford, UK, 2022
- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2021
- RSA Security Scholar Conference (RSAC), SF, USA, 2021
- 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), USA, 2021
- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2020
- RSA Security Scholar Conference (RSAC) 2020, CA, USA
- BlackHat 2019, NV, USA
📊Technical Presentations 📊
- Keim, Y and Gupta, D (2024, July) Digital Forensics Framework for Resolving Multi-tenancy in Cloud Computing at Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) USA 2024.
- Capture the Flag (CTF) Competitions for Cybersecurity Research, AIDE Conference, Marshall University, West Virginia 2024
- Novel Approaches to Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development, NIST NICE conference, Washington, June 2023
- Primer on Technology, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, April 2023
- Overcoming Gender Bias and Stereotypes in Cybersecurity, University of Warwick, 2023
🎖️CTF Ranks 🎖️
- TracerFIRE by Sandia National Laboratories, Spring 2024, (Team Rank: 9/18)
- SANS CTF, Fall 2022, (Rank 55/721)
- The Diana Initiative CTF, Summer 2022 (Team Rank 2/35)
- Target’s Cyber Defense Challenge on Malware Forensics and Reverse Engineering, (Rank 38/700)
- The National Cyber League, Spring 2022 (Team Rank 18/100)
- Threat Defense Challenge, by Trend Micro, Fall 2020 (Team Rank 2/50)
Photos

WiCyS Purdue won “Best Chapter Award” at WiCys 2021 Annual Conference