Winner
In June 2022 we announced the International Cybercrime Research Summer Award 2022. The competition was for students of all the world to do research on the leaked Conti files using knowledge of criminology and computer science. See original announcement here.
After evaluating all the works sent by the candidates, at the end of the September 2022, the winner was selected! The award and money prize was given to Estelle Ruellan a master student of criminology from the Université de Montréal!
Details of the work
Estelle worked on the Conti files using machine learning algorithms to uncover insights on the organization of the Conti criminal group. More precisely, she illustrated how to leverage well established and straightforward machine learning methods, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), coupled with visualization strategies (using WordCloud and pyLDAvis), to determine the main working positions of Conti members.
Given that the work was comprehensive enough, we decided to publish it as a research paper, which will be also announced here shortly.
We want to congratulate Estelle on her good work putting together knowledge of criminology and computer science to win the award! Well done Estelle and thanks for participating!
Article Link: Winner of the International Cybercrime Research Summer Award 2022 — Stratosphere IPS