Cybersecurity Leadership – Exploratory Grant Program

The UMBC Cybersecurity Institute and the Division of Research & Creative Achievement in partnership with the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) announces the awardees of the 2nd Cybersecurity Leadership – Exploratory Grant program. This competition was open to all UMBC faculty. This program invited exploratory projects on cybersecurity research and education focused on enhancing UMBC’s role as a source of thought leadership and as a leader in cybersecurity research. In selecting the awardees, emphasis is on interdisciplinary teams and innovative ideas to increase future external funding.

2024 Cybersecurity Leadership – Exploratory Grant Program awards

Nilanjan Banerjee and Mohamed Younis (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
Implementing Endpoint Security for Cyber-physical Systems

Manas Gaur (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
Cybersecurity Research: MetamorphicLLM: Robust Understanding of Metamorphic Malware through Attacks and Defenses using Neurosymbolic Large Language Models

Naghmeh Karimi (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
Artificial Intelligence and Hardware Security: From Research to Classroom (Educational Proposal)

Tera Reynolds (Information Systems)
Swiss Cheese Please: Analyzing Cybersecurity Risks in the Digital Health Ecosystem with Patients with Complex Care Needs

Alan Sherman and Enis Golaszewski (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
Modeling and Formal-Methods Analysis of the secureDNA Protocol

Meilin Yu (Mechanical Engineering) and Zhiyuan Chen (Information Systems (Information Systems)
Detecting Stealthy Long-term Cyber Attacks on Wind Energy Assets with Physics-informed Neural Network Technologies

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