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

安全自主是将网络安全和人工智能（AI）这两个计算机科学的重要分支融合在一起的一个新领域。自主保障的挑战和机遇呼唤课程改革和新的教育范式。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理学硕士（MSSI）学位课程。他们将参与研讨会、课程和研究项目，以确保自主，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新课程和研究计划的催化剂。此外，网络安全和人工智能专业工程项目、计算机科学系和其他部门也将受到影响。以ISI/IAA内部的国家教育模式为基础，这个项目的传播工作具有很大的潜力，可以接触到广泛的受众。拟议的教育活动，包括研讨会、课程和学生项目，将促进同行机构的采用。此外，该项目的外展活动将与现有的传统黑人学院或大学（HBCU）合作伙伴合作，扩大他们的相关教育和研究项目。MSSI的教学方法是基于整合来自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JHU在人工智能和物联网（IoT）领域的举措充分整合。整合工作将通过新成立的“可靠自主研究所”（Institute for Assured Autonomy）来完成，该研究所专注于可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。现实世界的基于项目的学习将使学生的学习计划不可或缺的顶点项目不断创建和更新，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迅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确保自主的影响。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，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联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全部门工作，工作时间与奖学金支持时间相同。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.