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.

确保自主性是一个融合了网络安全和人工智能（AI）的新领域，这是计算机科学的两个重要分支。保证自主权的挑战和机遇要求课程改革和新的教育模式。约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）的CyberCorps®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（MSSI）学位课程的硕士学位。他们将在确保自主权的情况下参与研讨会、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网络安全相关任务的责任和挑战。该项目将成为JHU信息安全研究所（ISI），保证自治研究所（IAA）和数据科学数学研究所的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计划也将受到影响。该项目的传播工作以统计学会/国际宇航科学院内的国家教育模式为基础，有很大的潜力接触到广泛的受众。拟议的教育活动，包括研讨会、课程和学生项目，将有助于同行机构采用。此外，该项目的推广活动将与目前的历史上黑人学院或大学（HBCU）合作伙伴，以扩大其相关的教育和研究计划。MSSI教育教学法是基于整合课程，实验室，研究项目，以及源于JHU几所学校的各种学术文化的实习。该项目旨在将MSSI计划与JHU在人工智能和物联网（IoT）领域的举措完全整合。整合将通过新成立的保证自治研究所完成，该研究所专注于基于可信人工智能的系统。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，将人工智能安全和人工智能安全的培训纳入SFS计划。真实世界的基于项目的学习将使不断创建和更新的顶点项目不可或缺的学生的学习计划，并为学生提供身临其境的学习体验。此外，整合学生的研究和学习可以快速将网络安全教育与新的能力和技术进步的需求结合起来，并产生超越人工智能和确保自主性的影响。该项目得到CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划的支持，该计划为建立或继续开展网络安全奖学金项目的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以发展上级网络安全劳动力毕业后，奖学金获得者需要在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作与他们的奖学金支持相同的时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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