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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.

Name: Amir Salar Sepehri 

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Position Title: Research Program Assistant

Major(s)/Minor(s): Biological Science (B.S.) & Psychology (B.A.) 

Expected Graduation Year: May 2016

Briefly describe your internship, co-op,  or research opportunity, including your day-to-day tasks, responsibilities, and assignments.

I worked as a research program assistant at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine (Department of Geriatrics) during the summer. I went to the Bayview campus on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM and worked with a group of 15-20 people. At Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, we worked on several different research studies, and I helped the team by:

1. Assisting the unit supervisor with recruitment and screening activities

2. Assisting the unit supervisor with enrollment of participants for multiple research programs

3. Completing the data entry and filings, and checking the data and report for consistency and accuracy

4. Assisting with other research related assignments as needed

I also interacted with multidisciplinary clinical and research teams on campus and participated in team meetings every week.

Describe the process of obtaining your internship, research, or co-op opportunity.

I was always interested in interning in a research organization while being an undergraduate. While looking for different opportunities that were close to the UMBC campus, I found a research program at the Geriatrics Department at Johns Hopkins University. Fortunately, I found out that one of my professors (Dr. Hughes from the Department of Biological Sciences) used to be part of that same program and was still in contact with the principal investigator. She was kind enough to recommend me to the program coordinator, and after that, I sent my resume, got an interview, and started working as a volunteer at first, and then as an intern during the summer. I currently work as a part-time employee at Bayview on Fridays. 

What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization/company?

As a pre-medicine student interested in doing research, working as an intern at Johns Hopkins was a great experience which helped me to have a better understanding of what I want to pursue when I start my journey in medical school. During the summer, I had a chance to be part of a real research study from the very beginning and observe the entire cycle. I helped the team with recruiting the participants, conducting interviews, taking different tests, and working on the samples in laboratory.

How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?

Although the elderly population (by definition, adults who are 65 years and older) represent almost 15% of the U.S. population, unfortunately they are usually forgotten, and their medical needs are mismanaged in our current healthcare system. I believe that by interning in a research program at the Geriatrics Department, I am a small part of a team that is trying to help this population and is working towards finding solutions for their medical needs. I believe that this rewarding experience will help the elderly population in the near future. 

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?

In terms of the application process, I would encourage you to apply early and to many different programs (not just one or two!). But in general, I would say to try your best, be very persistent with what you want, and do NOT underestimate yourself! 

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CSEE Professor Tinoosh Mohsenin received a $212,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project that will develop a heterogeneous ultra low-power accelerator for wearable biomedical computing. The work will be done in collaboration with researchers at George Mason University and students in the UMBC Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Lab.

With the rapid advances in small, low-cost wearable computing technologies, there is a tremendous opportunity to develop personal health monitoring devices capable of continuous vigilant monitoring of physiological signals. Wearable biomedical devices have the potential to reduce the morbidity, mortality, and economic cost associated with many chronic diseases by enabling early intervention and preventing costly hospitalizations. These low-power systems require to have the capacity to provide fast and accurate processing and interpretation of vast amounts of data and generate smart alarms only when warranted. The project will build the foundation of the next generation of heterogeneous biomedical signal processing platforms that can address the current and future generation energy-efficiency requirements and computational demands.

The interdisciplinary project is expected to inspire and enable new approaches to healthcare monitoring, and can significantly impact several fields including human-centered cyber-physical systems, cyber-security, mobile communications, bioinformatics and applications that require high performance and energy efficient embedded computing from different sensors.