CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): From Cybersecurity to Assured Autonomy

Cyber​​Corps 服务奖学金（续展）：从网络安全到有保障的自治

• 批准号: 2146254
• 负责人: Anton Dahbura
• 金额: $ 366.49万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2146254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CyberCorps; Scholarship; Service; Renewal; Cybersecurity

Assured autonomy is a new field that merges cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), two important branches of computer science. The challenges and opportunities of assured autonomy call for curricular changes and new education paradigms. This CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) renewal project at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) will expand to include education in this emerging field with students at JHU completing the Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI) degree program. They will be engaged in seminars, courses, and research projects in assured autonomy that cover essential topics of both AI for cybersecurity and security for AI. Upon graduation, they will be well-prepared to take on the responsibilities and challenges of cybersecurity-related missions in a broad range of applications. This project will be a catalyst for new curriculum and research initiatives at JHU’s Information Security Institute (ISI), Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and Mathematical Institute for Data Science. Furthermore, Engineering for Professionals programs in Cybersecurity and AI, the Computer Science Department, and other departments will also be impacted. Building on a national education model within ISI/IAA, this project’s dissemination efforts have strong potential to reach a broad audience. The proposed education activities, including seminars, courses, and student projects, will facilitate adoption by peer institutions. In addition, the project’s outreach activities will engage with current historically black college or university (HBCU) partners to expand their related education and research programs.The MSSI education pedagogy is based on integrating courses, labs, research projects, and internships stemming from the various academic cultures of the several schools at JHU. This project seeks to fully integrate the MSSI program with the initiatives of JHU in areas of AI and the Internet-of-things (IoT). The integration will be accomplished through the newly established Institute for Assured Autonomy that focuses on trustworthy AI-based systems. It will incorporate training in both AI for security and security of AI into the SFS program through seminars, courses, research projects, and mentoring from world-class experts from JHU and related institutions. Real-world project-based learning will enable the continuous creation and updating of capstone projects integral to students’ programs of study and provide students with immersive learning experiences. In addition, integrating student research and learning can quickly align cybersecurity education with the new capacity and need for technology advancement, and have an impact beyond AI and assured autonomy.This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

有保障的自治是一个融合了计算机科学两个重要分支网络安全和人工智能（AI）的新领域。有保障的自主权的挑战和机遇要求课程改革和新的教育范式。约翰·霍普金斯大学 (JHU) 的 Cyber​​Corps® 服务奖学金 (SFS) 更新项目将扩大到包括这一新兴领域的教育，JHU 的学生将完成安全信息学理学硕士 (MSSI) 学位课程。他们将在有保证的自主性下参与研讨会、课程和研究项目，涵盖人工智能网络安全和人工智能安全的基本主题。毕业后，他们将做好充分准备，在广泛的应用中承担与网络安全相关的任务的责任和挑战。该项目将成为约翰霍普金斯大学信息安全研究所 (ISI)、保证自治研究所 (IAA) 和数据科学研究所新课程和研究计划的催化剂。此外，网络安全和人工智能、计算机科学系和其他部门的专业工程项目也将受到影响。该项目以 ISI/IAA 内的国家教育模式为基础，其传播工作具有吸引广泛受众的强大潜力。拟议的教育活动，包括研讨会、课程和学生项目，将促进同行机构的采用。此外，该项目的外展活动将与当前的历史悠久的黑人学院或大学 (HBCU) 合作伙伴合作，扩大他们的相关教育和研究项目。MSSI 教育教学法基于整合来自 JHU 几所学校不同学术文化的课程、实验室、研究项目和实习。该项目旨在将 MSSI 计划与约翰霍普金斯大学在人工智能和物联网 (IoT) 领域的举措充分整合。此次整合将通过新成立的“保障自治研究所”来完成，该研究所专注于值得信赖的基于人工智能的系统。它将通过研讨会、课程、研究项目以及来自 JHU 和相关机构的世界级专家的指导，将人工智能安全培训和人工智能安全培训纳入 SFS 计划。现实世界中基于项目的学习将能够不断创建和更新学生学习计划中不可或缺的顶点项目，并为学生提供身临其境的学习体验。此外，将学生的研究和学习结合起来可以快速使网络安全教育与技术进步的新能力和需求保持一致，并产生超越人工智能和有保障的自主性的影响。该项目得到了 Cyber​​Corps® 服务奖学金 (SFS) 计划的支持，该计划资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养优秀的网络安全劳动力。毕业后，奖学金获得者必须在获得奖学金支持的期限内为联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织从事网络安全工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Assuring Safe Navigation and Network Operations of Autonomous Ships

• DOI: 10.1109/ccwc60891.2024.10427933
• 发表时间: 2024-01
• 期刊: 2024 IEEE 14th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
• 作者: Luis Rivas;Spencer Stevens;Andrew Zitter;Vinayak Khandelwal;Amodini Vardhan;Chinmay Lohani;Chris Rouff;Lanier Watkins