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he prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $300,000 artificial intelligence-(AI) based cybersecurity grant to Alabama State University's Dr. Uma Kannan, an associate professor of Computer Science. The three-year award is an NSF research initiation grant with a goal of modeling, predicting, and tracebacking malware strains.
Kannan explained that the individual research project will allow her to conduct research to develop new integrated AI-based models to detect web application logic vulnerabilities automatically and to protect cyberspace from ever-evolving, evasive malware-based cyberattacks. She pointed out that the project also promotes diversity, since Alabama State is an HBCU with more than 92 percent underrepresented minority undergraduates studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines.
"This initiative approach represents a new research area (AI-based cybersecurity) at ASU, and the project will improve teaching and learning through the development of methods for incorporating cybersecurity and secure software development methodologies into teaching and undergraduate research projects across multiple STEM disciplines, including but not limited to Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, thus having a broader impact on the STEM majors, their professional development, and retention," Kannan said. "This project will expand the nation's cybersecurity workforce, with a focus on minority involvement."
he prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $300,000 artificial intelligence-(AI) based cybersecurity grant to Alabama State University's Dr. Uma Kannan, an associate professor of Computer Science. The three-year award is an NSF research initiation grant with a goal of modeling, predicting, and tracebacking malware strains.
Kannan explained that the individual research project will allow her to conduct research to develop new integrated AI-based models to detect web application logic vulnerabilities automatically and to protect cyberspace from ever-evolving, evasive malware-based cyberattacks. She pointed out that the project also promotes diversity, since Alabama State is an HBCU with more than 92 percent underrepresented minority undergraduates studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines.
"This initiative approach represents a new research area (AI-based cybersecurity) at ASU, and the project will improve teaching and learning through the development of methods for incorporating cybersecurity and secure software development methodologies into teaching and undergraduate research projects across multiple STEM disciplines, including but not limited to Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, thus having a broader impact on the STEM majors, their professional development, and retention," Kannan said. "This project will expand the nation's cybersecurity workforce, with a focus on minority involvement."