Category: News
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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 CWIT Bits and Bytes program cited in CNN article on women in computing
An article on CNN, Why women in tech came to a 'Halt', uses AMC Halt and Catch Fire television series to illustrate some of challenges in keeping more women in computing majors and careers. The article mentions the UMBC CWIT Bits and Bytes program as one example of an effort to address this. "Even with…
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CSEE Prof. Curtis Menyuk wins Humboldt Research Award
CSEE professor Curtis Menyuk was recently awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award. This award is a significant honor, and comes with 60,000 euros in funding to support research in with German research collaborators. The Humbolt Research Award award is given to recognize the lifetime research achievments of academics "whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or…
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UMBC receives DoD grant to develop cybersecurity education tools
CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out…
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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.