CyberCorps: Scholarships for Service

Scholarship Opportunities for graduate students (both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees)

The Department of Computer Science at University of Houston is offering a full scholarship (Scholarship for Service (SFS)) for graduate students (both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees) who are interested in pursuing education and research in any computing-related discipline with Cyber Security focus.

The SFS program will also offer all students education, training and opportunities to become cyber security professionals capable of advancing America’s economic prosperity and national security in the 21st Century. The applicant maybe either an US citizen or permanent resident.

Required Materials :

1. Application Form: You can get the online application form here
2. Official Transcript
3. Recommendation Letters: Two recommendation letters from faculty members of your college are required. Please start to fill out the recommendation letter here.

S-STEM Scholarships for Undergraduates

A Scholarship Offer for Undergraduate Students Interested in Preparing for 21st Century Computer Science Careers

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston is awarding scholarships to academically meritorious, professionally talented computer science undergraduate students with an S-STEM grant from the National Science Foundation. This Program offers students preparation for global challenges of the 21st century by enriching their academic preparation in multi-disciplinary approaches.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Maintain full-time CS Undergraduate status
• Sophomore or higher classification
• Maintain major GPA of at least 3.0
• Demonstrated financial need by filling the FAFSA

Required Materials:

Application Form available here!

Recommendation Letters: Two recommendation letters from faculty members of your college are required. The recommendation writers should address the applicant’s academic and personality traits, which are likely to help the applicant succeed in a CS program and career.

What the S-STEM program offers

• Upto $10,000per academic year based on need
• Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property courses
• Guest Speaker Series
• Professional Development Workshops
• STEM Ambassador Outreach Program
• STEM Career Field Trip

Security Modules

For a more detailed distribution of the Module slides: Available HERE!

The three themes of our security initiative are:

• Security Analytics
• Security and Privacy in Distributed Networks
• Security Beyond Computer Science

Workshop Series on Current Topics in Security and Privacy

We are organizing three one-day workshops: 

a. One workshop at Texas Southern University on Monday, 30^th April, 2018.

b. Two workshops at University of Houston on Saturday, 23^rd June, 2018 and Saturday, 30^th June, 2018. 

The Workshops will include presentations on Security modules and supporting materials, as well as some hands-on activities. 

Travel Awards and/or stipends will be available to Faculty, PostDocs and advanced PhD students (1 year from graduation), who are interested in adopting/adapting the coursewares we have developed. 

The links to the Application and Travel Support forms.

       Intrusion Detection

       Data Mining/Machine Learning for Security​

​Location:

Department of Computer Science,
University Of Houston,Houston TX, USA

Workshop focus:

• Introduce the Enriching Security Curricula and enhancing awareness of Security project (http://capex.cs.uh.edu/)
• Introduce instructors to modules and hands on practice on Wireless Networking and Privacy in Data Mining
• Build a community of practitioners that contributes to enhancing security awareness across and beyond computer science

Benefits:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Readily integrate the modules offered into relevant activities for CS/IT courses
• Use the modules content to improve and enhance students learning in these topics
• Participate in building a community that uses and develops learning material in a modular form to enhance student learning.

Support:

The workshop is supported by an NSF grant. Funding is available to support travel and lodging for a limited number of participants.
Workshop Registration Application available at Workshop-SA@UH Application Link!

The application should be emailed to Dr. Rakesh Verma (rverma@uh.edu)

Workshop-SA@UH Travel Support Link!

Application deadline:May 25^th,2018

Notification: May 28^th, 2018
 

Agenda:

       Privacy preserving Data Mining

       Wireless Sensor Network Security (WSN)​

​Location:

Texas Southern University,
Houston TX, USA

Workshop focus:

• Introduce the Enriching Security Curricula and enhancing awareness of Security project (http://capex.cs.uh.edu/)
• Introduce instructors to modules and hands on practice on Wireless Networking and Privacy in Data Mining
• Build a community of practitioners that contributes to enhancing security awareness across and beyond computer science

Benefits:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Readily integrate the modules offered into relevant activities for CS/IT courses
• Use the modules content to improve and enhance students learning in these topics
• Participate in building a community that uses and develops learning material in a modular form to enhance student learning.

Support:

The workshop is supported by an NSF grant. Funding is available to support travel and lodging for a limited number of participants.
Application available at Workshop@TSU Application Link!

The application should be emailed to Lila Ghemri (Ghemri_LX@tsu.edu) and Dr. Rakesh Verma (rverma@uh.edu)

Workshop@TSU Travel Support Link!

Application deadline: April 10^th April 20^th, 2018

Notification: April 24^th, 2018
 

Agenda: