Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program Awardees

The UMBC Cybersecurity Institute and the Division of Research and Creative Achievement, in partnership with the College of Engineering and Information Technology, recently announced the recipients of the 2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory grant program.

The internal funding opportunity is designed to promote innovative, interdisciplinary research and education focused on enhancing UMBC’s leadership in cybersecurity research. Awardees received up to $45,000 in funding to develop their exploratory projects—an increase compared to its inaugural recipient cohort in 2023.

Learn more about UMBC’s internal funding opportunities. 

2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program Awardees

Read more about UMBC’s 2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program

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

Read more about UMBC’s 2023 Cybersecurity Exploratory Project

  • “Policy Integrated Blockchain to Automate HIPAA Part 2 Compliance Applied to Medicaid Data,” led by Jim Clavin, chief technology and compliance officer at the Hilltop Institute, and Karuna Joshi, associate professor of information systems.
  • “CyberCELL: Cybersecurity Curriculum Express Learning Library,” led by Ida Ngambeki, assistant professor of information systems, and Deborah Kariuki, director and clinical faculty of computer science education.
  • “Vulnerable Populations’ Perspectives on Data Security and Privacy of Mental Health Technologies,” led by Helena Mentis, professor of information systems.
  • “The UMBC Ethical Software Lab (ESL),” led by Mohammad Samarah, professor of information systems, and Melissa Morris, professor of information systems.
  • “Investigating Cybersecurity Educational Initiatives to Support Older Adults,” led by Ravi Kuber, associate professor of information systems.

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