The Open SkAI Conference is an annual four-day event to enhance and stimulate new Astro-AI research directions. This conference facilitates new collaborative activities between the AI industry, astronomers, and AI researchers, and stimulate new directions in community software and Astro-AI research.
Dr. Mohammad Abdus Salam, Chair of the Department of Computing, Information and Mathematical Sciences, and Technology at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø, served on the of the Open SkAI 2025 initiative. Under his mentorship, two graduate students from ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø participated and presented their research posters at the prestigious , held from Tuesday, September 2 to Friday, September 5, 2025, in downtown Chicago, Illinois.


The conference convened leading experts, researchers, and students from academia, industry, and government to explore cutting-edge innovations and future directions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in astrophysics.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø graduate student Ms. Anees Fatima presented her poster titled “AI-Driven Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection for Wi-Fi Networks,†which focused on leveraging AI to identify and mitigate wireless network vulnerabilities in real time. Meanwhile, Ms. Amera Firdous presented her research titled “AI Tools in Cybersecurity: Can Hackers Use ChatGPT Too?â€â€”a thought-provoking study on the dual-use nature of AI technologies and their implications for cybersecurity defense and ethics.

Both students received travel grants from the NSF-Simons SkAI Institute, which supported their participation and research dissemination at the conference.
Dr. Salam commended his students for their outstanding research efforts and their exemplary representation of ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø at this internationally recognized conference.
Poster titles and abstracts from the conference are available