ONR-Cyber-STEM 21-22
Abstract
The goal of this proposal is to develop and execute a four-week ONR-Cyber-STEM summer program for students at the high school levelvia the Network Security Lab (NSL) at the University of Washington, Seattle for the summer 2021. Early exposure to concepts of network security, threats and mitigation, done via interactive examples and programming can create student interest in the STEM and Cyber Security.In developing the modules for study during the Engineering Academy 2021, we focus on engaging students to stimulate analytical reasoning and puzzle solving and thinking skills to describe, formulate and experiment with different solution approaches to agiven cyber problem under consideration. We will incorporate the topics including host level security, network level security, software application development via Python programming, and suspicious activity intuition via anomaly detection using clustering.All the projects suggested will consists of short background introductory lecturesfollowed by interactive software-based learning. We anticipate the program to be held via zoom, given the COVID-19 crisis of the nation and the globe. Students will learn the following three components from the FOA cyber topics during this period. Our effort consists of three topics:1. Network Level Security via study of dynamic networks2. Interactive Reinforcement Learning3. Anomalous network activity detection using clusteringConducting this ONR-Cyber-STEM program in the summer of 2021 will allow us to learn about what approaches and topics are effective as well as which modules would easily stand alone and be scalable. We will provide an end of the project report describing our findings of a post programsurvey with the help of the UW Engineering Academy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 05, 2021
- Source ID
- N000142112734
Entities
People
- Radha Poovendran
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Washington