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    <Title>Online course on applying AI and HPC to cybersecurity</Title>
    <Tagline>Apply by March 30, starts on May 20, 2024</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/03/op.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><div><br></div><div><span><p><span>UMBC Professor </span><span><strong><a href="https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/faculty-and-staff/new-faculty-spotlights/houbing-herbert-song/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Houbing Herbert Song</a></strong></span><span>, in collaboration with </span><a href="http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~jyuan/cybertraining/application.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>Dr. Jiawei Yuan</strong></span></a><span> of UMass Dartmouth, will offer an online course on applying AI and high-performance computing knowledge and skills to solve cybersecurity challenges.</span></p><p><span>The </span><a href="http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~jyuan/cybertraining/index.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>12-week course</strong></span></a> <span>starts on May 20, 2024. It consists of instruction in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity, supported by teaching assistants. It is followed by faculty-guided research projects in multidisciplinary teams of participants from each area.</span></p><p><span>The pilot course is available to junior or senior undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or early-career faculty and researchers in related disciplines in a US institute at the time of participation. Those interested in participating can <strong><a href="http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~jyuan/cybertraining/application.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">apply online</a> </strong>by March 31, 2024. The course is free, and participants who successfully complete the training course will receive a $1,000 stipend.</span></p><p><span>The development of this </span><span>pilot course is supported by collaborative NSF grants </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309760" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>OAC-2309760</strong></span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229976" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>OAC-2229976</strong></span></a><span><strong>.</strong> </span></p></span></div></div>
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    <Summary>UMBC Professor Houbing Herbert Song, in collaboration with Dr. Jiawei Yuan of UMass Dartmouth, will offer an online course on applying AI and high-performance computing knowledge and skills to...</Summary>
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