Illinois graduate student Yuming Wu recently attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC ’19) and was awarded 3rd place at Cisco's IoT Hackathon. Yuming's award included a speaking time to briefly present a summary of her research to the GHC audience and an offer to intern with Cisco's IoT team in 2020. Youming major is in Computer Engineering. Her research is supported by a partnership between NCSA and the Coordinated Science Laboratory's (CSL) Depend Lab. It includes auditing and mitigation of SSH brute-force attacks, as well as applying machine learning to detect intrusions such as APTs.