CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Cybersecurity Workforce Preparation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

该项目旨在满足对高技能国家网络安全劳动力日益增长的需求，这些劳动力能够应对人工智能（AI）时代快速变化的挑战。在美国国家科学基金会（NSF）网络军团服务奖学金（SFS）项目的资助下，佐治亚州立大学（GSU）将培养能够在美国政府承担各种网络安全角色的毕业生。此外，该项目将增加联邦网络安全工作人员的多样性，充分利用GSU作为少数族裔服务机构（MSI）的地位。SFS项目将强调从网络安全领域代表性不足的群体中招募和培养高素质的候选人，包括与军方有联系的群体、第一代大学生和低收入学生。该项目独特和创新的重点将通过培养高技能的网络安全专业人员来影响国家的竞争力和美国政府，这些专业人员可以开发和部署值得信赖的网络系统，以应对社会面临的重大挑战。GSU在网络安全和隐私方面建立了强大的课程，平衡了技术严密性和实践经验，为学生提供了学习网络安全和隐私领域各种主题的机会。该项目的重点是培训和准备一支具有综合网络安全、隐私、人工智能和机器学习能力的员工队伍，将人工智能专业知识应用于网络安全，并构建强大且值得信赖的人工智能系统。学生将具备应用人工智能专业知识的知识和实践技能，并了解人工智能的安全性、安全性、隐私性、可靠性、公平性和伦理影响。在五年的时间里，该项目将为25名研究网络安全和人工智能交叉问题的学生提供奖学金。SFS学生将参加网络安全，隐私和可信赖的人工智能方面的密集学术课程，包括前沿领域的课程和研究，以提高学生的创造性思维能力，使他们成为更好的网络安全专业人员。除了完成严格的必修课程外，SFS学者还将通过个人和小组研究项目以及其他课外活动进行体验式学习，这将根据每个学生的准备和愿望提供深入的技术和跨学科学习经验以及领导力发展。该项目由网络军团(R)服务奖学金（SFS）项目支持，该项目资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金项目的提案，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支优秀的网络安全劳动力队伍。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。

This project aims to address the growing need for a highly-skilled national cybersecurity workforce capable of responding to rapidly evolving challenges in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). With funding from the NSF CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, Georgia State University (GSU) will produce graduates capable of assuming a variety of cybersecurity roles in the U.S. government. Moreover, the project will increase the diversity of the Federal cybersecurity workforce, leveraging GSU's position as a minority-serving institution (MSI). The SFS project will emphasize recruiting and graduating highly qualified candidates from groups that have remained underrepresented in the cybersecurity field, including those with military-affiliations, first-generation college attendees, and low-income students. This project's unique and innovative focus will impact the Nation's competitiveness and the U.S. government by producing highly skilled cybersecurity professionals who can develop and deploy trustworthy cybersystems to address grand challenges facing society.GSU has established a strong curriculum in cybersecurity and privacy that balances technical rigor and hands-on experiences, offering students the opportunity to study various topics in cybersecurity and privacy. The project focuses on training and preparing a workforce with integrated cybersecurity, privacy, AI, and machine learning competencies to apply AI expertise to cybersecurity and build robust and trustworthy AI systems. Students will be prepared with the knowledge and practical skills to apply AI expertise and understand AI's safety, security, privacy, reliability, fairness, and ethical implications. Over a five-year period the project will provide scholarships to 25 students studying issues at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. The SFS students will participate in an intensive academic program in cybersecurity, privacy, and trustworthy AI, including coursework and research in cutting-edge areas to sharpen the students' ability for creative thinking, making them better cybersecurity professionals. In addition to completing rigorous, required coursework, the SFS scholars will engage in experiential learning through opportunities for individual and group research projects and other extracurricular activities, which will provided deeply technical as well as interdisciplinary learning experiences and leadership development tailored to each student's preparation and aspiration.This project is supported by the CyberCorps(R) 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.