The way borders are currently viewed must change in order to combat developing national security threats such as transnational criminal organizations and cyber security threats.
The Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute hosted the 2017 Meeting and Showcase Monday and Tuesday, December 4-5, 2017 at American University in Washington, D.C.
The nine members of the Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute External Advisory Board met to discuss the progress and development of the Institute Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
The Borders, Trade and Immigration Institute (BTI) has successfully concluded two years of the project titled “Participatory Operational Assessment (POA): Evaluating and predicting the operational effectiveness of Cargo Security Process at Ports of Entry (POEs).” This project is led by Maria G. Burns, performer with the BTI Institute since 2015.
Dennis Egan, research professor at Rutgers University and assistant director of Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Data Analysis, seeks to apply two novel methods to gain insights into missed detections by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Feature on Samuel Olatunbosun, Ph.D., and his research team investigating cybercrime in sub-Saharan Africa as part of the U.S. Departnet of Homeland Security Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions mentored by faculty with the BTI Institute. Credit Annette Hilton.
Pengfei Dou, while a student with the Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute won best paper at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017, for paper, “Multi-View 3D Face Reconstruction with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks.”