Cybersecurity Center News
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Dr. Lance Fiondella is associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Dartmouth's College of Engineering.
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Assistant Professors Ming Shao & Jiawei Yuan have received a $404,620 National Science Foundation award for their research experiences undergraduate site, which will intertwine AI research with cybersecurity and systems engineering in a portfolio of synergistic projects.
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Baker-Polito Administration highlights Massachusetts college students and mentors for helping address diversity and equity in industry workforce
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The University hailed for its cybersecurity teaching and research by federal agencies
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Dr. Yuan, assistant professor of Computer & Information Science, will lead a three-year project aimed at building awareness and competence to respond to a dynamic and rapidly developing array of cyber threats.
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Prinkle Sharma and Vidhyashree Nagaraju, who completed their PhDs in Computer Engineering, have accepted tenure track faculty appointments at nationally ranked universities.
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Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering students benefit from Lance Fiondella’s array of research awards