Pronouns: she/her/hers

Bilingual: English, Hindi

👩‍💼Assistant Professor

Quote of the day

💡💡💡 “You are stronger than you think, you have greater powers than you know” ——- from The Wonder Woman

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Hi, I’m Dr. Yansi Keim! I am an incoming Assistant Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. I will be teaching Cyber Defense and Cyber Incident Response and continue to research at this new role.

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News!!!

• May 2025: I recently passed my PhD Defense in Cybersecurity from the Department of CIT at the Purdue University, Indiana. I am honored to be advised by Dr. Marcus Rogers.
• Spring 2025: I worked as a Research Assistant at the Office of the Dean, Purdue University from Jan 2025 - May 2025.
• In 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
  1. NIST NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) model, and
  2. Quantitative Methods

• Fall 2024: I worked as 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 👑

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Earlier, I served as the **Presidentof **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.

Last Role

✍️ Publications ✍️

1. 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.
2. Keim, Y., & Mohapatra, A. K. (2022). Cyber threat intelligence framework using advanced malware forensics. International Journal of Information Technology, 14(1), 521-530.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Keim, Y., Yoon, Y. H., & Karabiyik, U. (2021). Digital forensics analysis of ubuntu touch on pinephone. Electronics, 10(3), 343.
6. 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).
7. 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 📝

1. Keim, Y and Rogers, MK (2023, March). THE BIG PICTURE: Capture the Flag Competitions for Cybersecurity Education and Curriculum at 23rd CERIAS Annual Conference.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 🏫

1. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), TX, USA, 2025
2. Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS), LA, 2024
3. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), TN, USA, 2024
4. Day of Shecurity - India, 2024
5. CERIAS Annual Security Symposium, IN, USA 2023
6. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2023
7. Women in LEADERSHIP (WIL Institute), IN, USA, 2023
8. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), OH, USA, 2022
9. Women in Forensic Computing Workshop, Oxford, UK, 2022
10. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2021
11. RSA Security Scholar Conference (RSAC), SF, USA, 2021
12. 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), USA, 2021
13. Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), CO, USA, 2020
14. RSA Security Scholar Conference (RSAC) 2020, CA, USA
15. BlackHat 2019, NV, USA

📊Conference Presentations 📊

1. 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.
2. Capture the Flag (CTF) Competitions for Cybersecurity Research, AIDE Conference, Marshall University, West Virginia 2024
3. Novel Approaches to Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development, NIST NICE conference, Washington, June 2023

Photos

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