Education

Student Competitions, Challenges & Summer Schools

MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) Competition
Embedded security competition that puts university-affiliated teams (3-20 students each) through the experience of creating a secure system and learning from their mistakes. This design-build-attack-style competition helps develop practical skills that can be applied to securing critical embedded systems, such as UAVs, smart grids, and IoT devices.

[ Machine Learning | Analytics | XR ] + Health | Firefighting
Emotion recognition and postural control ML, smart city firefighting, AR/VR for hand washing and movement assessment, cyber tools for multiple sclerosis, children with ASD.

CPP UAS in UAV Technologies
This 10-week program is designed to increase students' interest in UAV technologies by means of first-hand experience on UAV research with direct mentorship by faculty advisors on advanced research projects in UAV flight dynamic and control, computer vision, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, and robotics.

Research Experiences in Cybersecurity Algorithms
Exposes students to real-world, innovative research and development focused on tools for Cyber-security, static analysis of source code, attack pattern detection through ML techniques, network threat detection, blockchain technology and cybersecurity, and binary source code analysis for malware detection.

Research Experiences in Information Centric Engineering (ICE)
Research areas deals with creation of Virtual Reality based engineering and simulation environments for a range of process domains (micro assembly, surgical simulation and space systems).

Smart Computing and Communications at UMBC
REU research projects in three interrelated thrust areas of smart computing and communications: (i) security and privacy protection, (ii) novel applications, and (iii) sensing and adaptive networking.

VU-ISIS Summer Internship Program
The Institute for Software-Integrated Systems' Summer Internship Program offers paid summer internship opportunities to current undergraduate and graduate students from both Vanderbilt and other universities to participate in a variety of projects that offer students challenging and engaging experiences.