The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents

Wearable Sensors for Individuals
with Mobility Impairments

Nilanjan Banerjee
Associate Professor, CSEE Dept., UMBC

1-2pm Friday, 6 November 2015, ITE 325

More than 500,000 individuals in the US are hospitalized every year due to spinal cord injuries. The severity of the injury dictates the degree of mobility that an individual has. All mobility impaired individuals rely on assistive devices to perform their daily life activities. Present assistive devices, however, are cumbersome, expensive, and limited. To this end, in this talk I will present two minimally intrusive systems — InviZ and Tongue-n-Cheek that can be used for environmental control in individuals with limited mobility. InviZ is based on textile capacitive sensors built into clothing and is used for gesture recognition; Tongue-n-Cheek is a micro-radar based system for tongue gesture recognition. This is joint work with Ryan Robucci and Chintan Patel and students in the ECLIPSE cluster at UMBC (eclipse.umbc.edu)

Nilanjan Banerjee is an associate professor in the CSEE Dept. at UMBC. He is a 2011 NSF Career Awardee and received a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovations Award. His research interests are in embedded systems, mobile systems, and sensor design.

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According to LifeJourney,

“The NSA Day of Cyber is designed to raise the “national IQ” for STEM and CyberScience education paths. NSA is sponsoring the program to introduce and inspire the more than 40 million students in schools and colleges to pursue STEM careers to build the skills that will open up their future and connect them to this in-demand digital workforce.

The NSA Day of Cyber is a web-based, self-paced, interactive experience that enables students to test drive their future in Cybersecurity by experiencing a day in the life of six NSA cybersecurity leaders. This online experience is free to students, teachers, schools and organizations in the United States.”

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski offered the morning’s keynote about Maryland’s prominent and successful role in educating the well-rounded cyber workforce. Following a brief promotional video, the official unveiling of the NSA Day of Cyber included remarks by Rob Joyce, Chief of Tailored Access Operations, NSA; Rodney Peterson, Director of NICE, NIST; Dr. Mark R. Nelson, Executive Director, Computer Science Teacher Association, and  Dr. Nicholas Eugene, Director of STEM Programs, Coppin State University.  An additional announcement event will take place on November 4 at the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) conference in San Diego.

Once the site launches in November, the NSA Day of Cyber experience will be promoted to Career Services and various UMBC academic programs/student groups with an interest in cybersecurity.  A recent CSEE Ph.D. alumnus is a featured ‘mentor’ for one of the six experiences presented in the NSA Day of Cyber, too!

For more information on the NSA Day of Cyber, contact Dr. Rick Forno or register at LifeJourney’s NSA Day of Cyber site.

Below are featured events and internship/employment opportunities that have recently been posted or have application deadline dates that are quickly approaching!  To see all that the UMBC Career Center has to offer YOU, please visit our myUMBC group page or log into your UMBCworks account!

FEATURED EVENTS…

NEW! Internship Success Conference Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 5 pm – 8 pm

NEW! Inside Scoop: Finance & Accounting Monday, November 9, 20115, Noon – 1 pm

Diversity Recruitment Event Thursday, November 5, 2015, 5 pm – 8 pm, Advance registration is required: http://careers2.umbc.edu/calendar/diversity.php

UMBC Connects: T. Rowe Price Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 11 am – 2 pm - No need to stay for the entire event…stop by when you are able!

INFORMATION SESSIONS….

Information Session: Onyx Point, Inc. Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 5:30 pm – 7 pm

Information Session: Basys, Inc. Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 5 pm – 6 pm

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NEW!  On-Campus Interview Deadlines

Paypal
Deadline to Apply:  November 9
Interview Date:  November 16

Voith-GmbH
Deadline to Apply:  November 9
Interview Date:  November 17

FEATURED FULL-TIME & PART-TIME JOBS, INTERNSHIPS, AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Northrop Grumman 2016 Intern Hire Draft!

Do you want to intern in Silicon Valley? Check out Code 2040

Nonprofit Internships at Education-Based Latino Outreach

Keep an eye on the Career Center website for all upcoming events and programs!  Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors….this is an excellent opportunity for you to learn more about career paths…whether you are exploring possibilities or searching for an internship or full-time opportunity!

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

How colorful is your exploit kit?

Professor Charles Nicholas
Computer Science, CSEE Department, UMBC

11:15am-12:30pm Friday 6 November 2015, ITE 325b

Exploit kits have emerged as a significant form of malware in recent years. When a user visits an infected web site, code is executed that inspects the user’s computer for vulnerabilities, and then downloads malicious payloads based on that information. When a user visits an infected site, the so-called “landing page” can then begin its reconnaissance work. These landing pages, and in particular the embedded code, usually Javascript or a Java applet, can be captured and analyzed. Our hypothesis is that exploit kits can be characterized by their landing pages.

We have completed our effort to build a data set of malware domains and the landing pages they send. At this point we have almost seven gigabytes of pcap data, collected from about 4500 web sites, to analyze. The analysis began with informal inspection of pcap files. We parsed the pcap data into n-grams, and applied established numerical analysis techniques to produce some graphs. These graphs were the heart of our presentation at the July, 2014 Malware Technical Exchange Meeting.

Since then, we have succeeded in running the pcap data through the Suricata program, which separates the pcap data into individual HTML files. Some of these contain Javascript code, which we have parsed out into separate objects. These Javascript specimens were then subjected to the same visual cluster analysis that was used with the original pcap data.

Charles Nicholas is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He earned the B.S. degree from the University of Michigan – Flint in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He has written more than one hundred scholarly papers, and has advised seven Ph.D. students and more than eighty M.S. students. He served as Chair of the CSEE Department from 2004 to 2010. In addition to his appointment at UMBC, Dr. Nicholas has held appointments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He spent academic years 1996-97 and 2011-2012 on sabbatical at the National Security Agency. Dr. Nicholas’ research interests include document engineering, information retrieval, and malware analysis. His work has been funded by a number of agencies, including NASA, Maryland Industrial Partnerships, DARPA, AFOSR, and the Department of Defense. He has served five times as the General Chair of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and serves on the SIGWEB Executive Committee. Dr. Nicholas is a member of the Board of Directors of UMBC Training Centers, and the Advisory Board of the UMBC Research Park.

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UMBC undergraduate and graduate students interested in cybersecurity can apply for an NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service scholarship by 20 November 2015.

The NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service program is designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of federal information assurance professionals that protect the government’s critical information infrastructure. This program provides scholarships that may fully fund the typical costs incurred by full-time students while attending a participating institution, including tuition and education and related fees. Participants also receive stipends of $22,500 for undergraduate students and $34,000 for graduate students.

Applicants must be be full-time UMBC students within two years of graduation with a BS or MS degree; a student within three years of graduation with both the BS/MS degree; a student participating in a combined BS/MS degree program; or a research-based doctoral student within three years of graduation in an academic program focused on cybersecurity or information assurance. Recipients must also be US citizens; meet criteria for Federal employment; and be able to obtain a security clearance, if required.

For more information and instructions on how to apply see the UMBC CISA site or the OPM SFS site. Contact Dr. Alan Sherman (Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. ) for questions not answered on those sites.