Category: Computer Science
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NSA Supports 2015 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3)
Dr. Rick Forno, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Director and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, has received a $45,000 grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for student winners at the 2015 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) finals taking place at the CyberMaryland 2015 conference in Baltimore on October 28-29. The…
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PhD proposal: Data, Energy, and Privacy Management Techniques for Sustainable Microgrids, 11am 8/11
Zhichuan Huang will present his Ph.D. proposal on Data, Energy, and Privacy Management Techniques for Sustainable Microgrids at 11:00am on Tuesday, August 11 in ITE 325b.
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PhD proposal: Holistic Home Energy Management: From Sensing to Data Analytics, 2pm 8/11
David Lachut presents his PhD proposal on 'Holistic Home Energy Management: From Sensing to Data Analytics' at 2pm on Tue 8/11
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MS Defense: Cybersecurity Assessment Tools, 11am 8/7
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County MS Thesis Defense in Computer Science Identifying Significant, Difficult and Timeless Concepts for Cybersecurity Assessment Tools: Results and Analysis of Two Delphi Processes Geet Parekh 11:00am Friday, 7 August 2015, ITE 228 As part of our ongoing project to create Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATs), we carried…
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GRA sought for DoD-funded cybersecurity education project
A 12-Month Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) is sought for 2015-2016 to work on a DoD-funded cybersecurity education project at UMBC. Position Highlights 9-month stipend: $18,752.94; 2.5 month summer stipend: $8,000. Hours: 20 hours/week (September 2015-May 2016) Benefits: tuition and mandatory fees, health insurance Eligibility: MS or PhD student at UMBC in CS, CE, EE,…
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Rick Forno discusses social media monitoring during Baltimore riots
Rick Forno, Graduate Program Director for Cybersecurity and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity spoke with the Baltimore Sun and Technical.ly Baltimore recently about hacktivism in the Baltimore riots and a recent ZeroFox report that analyzed social media to identify prominent activists, potential…
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UMBC offers cybersecurity research special topics course in Fall 2015
The UMBC CSEE department will offer a special research-oriented special topics course on Cybersecurity in Fall 2015 involving a mix of undergraduate and graduate students.
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MS defense: Lianjie Sun, Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction, 2pm 7/23
Lianjie Sun will defend his MS thesis on 'Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction Systems'; at 2pm on Thr. July 23 in ITE325b at UMBC.
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CSEE Prof. Jian Chen receives grant for health informatics data visualization
UMBC CSEE professor Jian Chen received an award from DoD to to develop new techniques to visualize health informatics data in collaboration with esearchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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Rick Forno discusses OPM data breach with Risky Business podcast
Last week, Rick Forno, CSEE's Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, joined Australian security journalist Pat Gray for a lengthy discussion on the Risky Business podcast about the OPM data breach, local reactions, and possible US cybersecurity responses to this significant and far-reaching security incident.