Deadline to apply: Friday, April 18, 2014 11:59pm

Are you interested in connecting one-on-one with employers and UMBC alumni from your field of interest, while searching and applying for job, internships, and research opportunities? 

Professional Network provides you with the opportunity to:

·      Learn more about your field to help you make informed career decisions

·      Network and learn about the importance of professional associations

·      Develop networking and personal branding skills and establish professional contacts

·      Improve professional communication skills

·      Compliment your academics with professional development and real world experience

·      Learn about applying your strengths in a professional setting.

Discuss these topics with your ProNet  mentor:

·      Preparing for an upcoming interview or job fair

·      How to write a resume to better fit a specific field or industry

·      Researching career options for specific degrees

·      Exploring degree options

·      Post-graduation volunteer work

You can also learn:

·      How to prepare for informational interviews

·      How to prepare fora company visit

·      Professional etiquette

The following link helps you to get started, includes samples of professional correspondence, shows how to make the best use of ProNet, and lists additional engagement opportunities and resources!

http://careers.umbc.edu/skills/network/pronet/ 

Interested in applying for  a job, interview or an on-campus interview? Want to know about Career Center career events and announcements? Want to connect with a mentor? Want to schedule an appointment? UMBCworks is the database where you can do all of these things!

Getting Started:

Read and agree to our “Policies of Professional Conduct.” Complete your profile.

Documents:

Upload a resume to UMBCworks and then come in during walk-in hours for approval (M-F, 2-4 in Math/Psyc 212 or Wednesday/Thursday 6-8 in the Writing Center in the Library). If these times do not work for you, then schedule an appointment (you can call the office, stop by the office, or use UMBCworks to schedule an appointment yourself).

After your resume has been approved, then you can begin applying.

Jobs:

Apply for jobs, internships, on-campus interviews, cooperative education opportunities, and more!

Employers:

Find information about employers and available opportunities at those organizations.

Networking:

Connect with an alumni or employer

Events and Calendar:

Find out about our information sessions and workshops/ job fairs and RSVP for events.

Request a Counseling Appointment:

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/news/41364

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Making Physical Inferences to Enhance Wireless Security

Prof. Jie Yang, Oakland University

1:00pm Tuesday, 8 April 2014, ITE 325b

The ubiquity of wireless is redefining security challenges as the increasingly pervasive wireless networks make it easier to conduct attacks for new and rapidly evolving adversaries. There is an urgent need to seek security solutions that can be built into any wireless network stack to defend against attacks across the current heterogeneous mix of wireless technologies, which do not require extensive customization on wireless devices and cannot be undermined easily even when nodes are compromised. In particular, security solutions that are generic across all wireless technologies and can complement conventional security methods must be devised. My research efforts are centered around exploiting physical properties correlated with pervasive wireless environments to enhance wireless security and make inferences for context-aware applications. In this talk, I will present my research work in exploiting spatial correlation as a unique physical property inherited from any wireless device to address identity-based attacks including both spoofing and Sybil. These attacks are especially harmful as the claimed identity of a wireless device is often considered as an important first step in an adversary’s attempt to launch a variety of attacks in different network layers.

Our proposed techniques address several challenges include (1) detecting identity-based attacks in challenging mobile environments, (2) determining the number of attackers, and (3) localizing multiple adversaries. I will also present our work in secret key generation for facilitating secure data communication in the increasing dynamic wireless environments. Our work addressed the problem of collaborative secret key extraction for a group of wireless devices without relying on a key distribution infrastructure. Moreover, in order to provide efficient secret key generation, we exploit fine-grained physical layer information, such as the channel state information made available from OFDM system, to improve the secret key generation rate and make the secret key extraction approach more practical.

Jie Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University. His research interests include cyber security and privacy, and mobile and pervasive computing, with an emphasis on network security, smartphone security and applications, security in cognitive radio and smart grid, location systems and vehicular applications. His research is supported by National Science Foundation and Army Research Office. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Runner-up Award from IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security 2013 and the Best Paper Award from ACM MobiCom 2011. His research has received wide press coverage including MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNET News, and Yahoo News.

Hosts: Nilanjan Banerjee and Tim Finin

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Making Physical Inferences to Enhance Wireless Security

Prof. Jie Yang, Oakland University

1:00pm Tuesday, 8 April 2014, ITE 325b

The ubiquity of wireless is redefining security challenges as the increasingly pervasive wireless networks make it easier to conduct attacks for new and rapidly evolving adversaries. There is an urgent need to seek security solutions that can be built into any wireless network stack to defend against attacks across the current heterogeneous mix of wireless technologies, which do not require extensive customization on wireless devices and cannot be undermined easily even when nodes are compromised. In particular, security solutions that are generic across all wireless technologies and can complement conventional security methods must be devised. My research efforts are centered around exploiting physical properties correlated with pervasive wireless environments to enhance wireless security and make inferences for context-aware applications. In this talk, I will present my research work in exploiting spatial correlation as a unique physical property inherited from any wireless device to address identity-based attacks including both spoofing and Sybil. These attacks are especially harmful as the claimed identity of a wireless device is often considered as an important first step in an adversary’s attempt to launch a variety of attacks in different network layers.

Our proposed techniques address several challenges include (1) detecting identity-based attacks in challenging mobile environments, (2) determining the number of attackers, and (3) localizing multiple adversaries. I will also present our work in secret key generation for facilitating secure data communication in the increasing dynamic wireless environments. Our work addressed the problem of collaborative secret key extraction for a group of wireless devices without relying on a key distribution infrastructure. Moreover, in order to provide efficient secret key generation, we exploit fine-grained physical layer information, such as the channel state information made available from OFDM system, to improve the secret key generation rate and make the secret key extraction approach more practical.

Jie Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University. His research interests include cyber security and privacy, and mobile and pervasive computing, with an emphasis on network security, smartphone security and applications, security in cognitive radio and smart grid, location systems and vehicular applications. His research is supported by National Science Foundation and Army Research Office. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Runner-up Award from IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security 2013 and the Best Paper Award from ACM MobiCom 2011. His research has received wide press coverage including MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNET News, and Yahoo News.

Hosts: Nilanjan Banerjee and Tim Finin

The UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is offering the following courses over the Summer 2014 session.

Each class will meet one or two days a week in the late afternoon or evening, depending on the length of the session where the course is offered.

• CYBR 620: Introduction to Cybersecurity (Parr)
  T/TH 6-8:45PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
• CYBR 691:  Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Software Security” (Coman)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  Pre-Req: CYBR 620 or equivalent

Offered to students enrolled at the Universities at Shady Grove campus ONLY

• CYBR 691: Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Cybersecurity Risk Management” (Shariati)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  PreReq: CYBR 620 and enrollment at the Universities at Shady Grove

The deadline to apply for Fall 2014 admission to the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is August 1, 2014.

The UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is offering the following courses over the Summer 2014 session.

Each class will meet one or two days a week in the late afternoon or evening, depending on the length of the session where the course is offered.

• CYBR 620: Introduction to Cybersecurity (Parr)
  T/TH 6-8:45PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
• CYBR 691:  Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Software Security” (Coman)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  Pre-Req: CYBR 620 or equivalent

Offered to students enrolled at the Universities at Shady Grove campus ONLY

• CYBR 691: Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Cybersecurity Risk Management” (Shariati)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  PreReq: CYBR 620 and enrollment at the Universities at Shady Grove

The deadline to apply for Fall 2014 admission to the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is August 1, 2014.

The UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is offering the following courses over the Summer 2014 session.

Each class will meet one or two days a week in the late afternoon or evening, depending on the length of the session where the course is offered.

• CYBR 620: Introduction to Cybersecurity (Parr)
  T/TH 6-8:45PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
• CYBR 691:  Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Software Security” (Coman)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  Pre-Req: CYBR 620 or equivalent

Offered to students enrolled at the Universities at Shady Grove campus ONLY

• CYBR 691: Special Topics in Cybersecurity: “Cybersecurity Risk Management” (Shariati)
  M/W 7:10-9:40PM
  Summer I (6 weeks) May 27th-July 3rd, 2014
  PreReq: CYBR 620 and enrollment at the Universities at Shady Grove

The deadline to apply for Fall 2014 admission to the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is August 1, 2014.