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2021-2022 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2022
Fall Semester 2021
- MC2 Researchers Present Six Papers at ACM Conference on Information Security
- UMD Team Wins Internet Defense Prize
- As New Director, Mazurek Expands on MC2’s Momentum
- Mazurek Part of Award-Winning Team Studying the Digital Safety of Sex Workers
- UMD Team Wins Distinguished Paper Award for Uncovering New Type of Cyberattack
2020-2021 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2021
- New Postdocs Bring Expertise in Secure Software Development and Usable Security and Privacy to MC2
- MC2 Researchers Present 10 Papers at Upcoming Security Symposiums
- Lampropoulos Receives $540K NSF Award to Advance Proof Engineering Software and Protocols
- Levin Selected to Serve on National Academies' Forum on Cyber Resilience
- Maryland Cybersecurity Center Kicks Off Second Year of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Mazurek Named Co-Director of Maryland Cybersecurity Center
- UMD Team Wins Applied Networking Research Prize
- UMD Team to Receive Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2021
- Van Horn to Present Paper on Guaranteeing Security and Efficiency in Gradually Typed Programs
- MC2 Doctoral Student Takes on the Steep Challenge of Developing Secure Software
- New MC2 Postdoctoral Fellow Brings Expertise in Cryptography to UMD Campus
- Van Horn Wins Most Influential Paper Award at ICFP 2020
- MC2 Graduate Student Daniel Votipka Receives John Karat Award
- MC2 Researchers Have 13 Papers Accepted to Upcoming Cybersecurity Events
- New Faculty Member Brings Wide Range of Secure Software Development Skills
2019-2020 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2020
- Graduating Students and Postdocs Affiliated with MC2 Accept Positions in Academia and Industry
- Mazurek Joins National Effort to Build a Secure Smart Home
- Making Cryptosystems More Secure in the Presence of Quantum Computers
- Five UMIACS Faculty Receive Academic Promotions
- UMIACS Faculty Adapting to Online-Only Research Activities
- Srivastava Wins NSF Award for Integrated Circuit Fabrication Security
- Levin Wins Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
- Mazurek Wins NSF Award to Improve Secure Software Development
- MC2 Seeking Candidates for Postdoc Fellowship Program
2018-2019 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2019
- Papamanthou & Visiting Postdoc Working on Encrypted Databases
- Redmiles Accepts Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Princeton University
- Katz Named IACR Fellow
- Van Horn Receives NSF Award For Gradual Verification Project
- Katz Partners with PlatON on Building Protocols for Secure MPC
- Breakerspace Lab Encourages Undergraduate Research
- Cukier Honored with SANS Difference Makers Award
- MC2 Faculty, Students Have Five Papers Accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
- Mazurek, Hicks Receive NSF Grant to Study Factors Leading to Insecure Software
- MC2 Researchers Have Six Papers Accepted to USENIX Security Symposium
2017-2018 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2018
- MC2 Graduate Student Daniel Votipka Awarded Google-Student Veterans of America Scholarship
- Three Graduating MC2 Students Accept Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
- Papamanthou Awarded Grant to Study Security in Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies
- Mazurek Discusses Privacy and Design at Center for Democracy & Technology Event
- Papamanthou Gives Keynote at FAB 2018
- MC2 Graduate Student Advised by Papamanthou Awarded Symantec Fellowship
- Wu Named AAAS Fellow
- MC2 Researchers Win Best Paper Award at ACM CCS 2017
- UMD Cybersecurity Club Wins National Competition
- Mazurek Part of Team Receiving Top Honors in NSA Cybersecurity Paper Competition
- MC2 Graduate Students Bring Passion, Innovation to the Field of Cybersecurity
- Two MC2 Faculty Members Receive IEEE Cybersecurity Awards
- Dumitras Spearheads Internship Program Targeting European Students
- Levin Wins Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security Symposium
- Dachman-Soled Receives Cisco Grant for Research on Post-Quantum Cryptosystems
2016-2017 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2017
- MC2 Faculty, Students Have Four Papers Accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
- Papamanthou Ranks High among Top-Cited Security Papers
- Katz Named UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
- MC2 Graduate Student Co-Advised by Katz and Papamanthou Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship
- Papamanthou Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Security in Cloud Computing
- Mazurek, Hicks Receive Google Faculty Research Award
- Mazurek and Redmiles Create Video to Educate Users on Cybersecurity Best Practices
- Redmiles, Graduate Student Advised by Mazurek, Receives Facebook Fellowship
- Papamanthou Receives NetApp Faculty Fellowship Award
- Katz Co-Organizes Three-Day Winter School on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies
- MC2 Team Takes Second Place in Cybersecurity Case Study Competition
- UMD Cybersecurity Symposium to Focus on Campus Research, Education Initiatives
- MC2 Faculty, Students Present Nine Papers at ACM CCS 2016
- Paper Co-Authored by Gordon, Loeb, Lucyshyn and Zhou Receives Honorable Mention in NSA Competition
- Paper on Build It, Break It, Fix It Competition Sheds Light on Building Secure Software
- Maimon Co-Leading NSF Grant to Understand Link Between Mobile Device Users and Cybercrime
- Papamanthou Co-Organizes Workshop Focused on Secure Data Management Systems
- Mazurek Quoted in Washington Post Article About Password Security
2015-2016 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2016
- Paper Co-Authored by Mazurek to be Presented at Black Hat USA 2016
- Dachman-Soled, Katz Receive Cisco Awards
- Research by Foster and MC2 Graduate Students Featured in MIT News
- MC2 Experts Rank Nations' Vulnerability to Cyberattack
- Kartik Nayak Named Google PhD Fellow
- Dumitras Chairs Conference Session on Emerging Cyber Threats, Novel Attacks
- Katz Discusses Authentication on the CyberWire Daily Podcast
- Qu Awarded NIST Grant
- Winning Teams Crowned in Second Annual Build It, Break It, Fix It Contest
- Dachman-Soled Wins 2016-17 Graduate School Research and Scholarship Summer Award
- Katz Quoted in NBC News Article on Encryption Apps
- Fourth Annual MC2 Symposium Highlighted in Diamondback Article
- Qu Leads Workshop on Security for the Internet of Things
- Northrop Grumman Foundation Renews Commitment to ACES Program with $2.76M Gift
- UMD Cybersecurity Symposium to Focus on Latest Trends in Cybersecurity
- Maimon Receives Young Scholar Award for Work in Cybercrime
- Papamanthou Receives Yahoo! Labs Award
- MC2 and UMD Host Cybersecurity and Cybersafety Workshop for Girls
- Levin Co-Authors Study that Finds Vulnerabilities in Use of Certificates for Web Security
- UMD Among Largest Recipients of NSF Funding for Cybersecurity Research and Education
- Mazurek Receives NIST Grant for Secure Mobile App Development
- Dumitras Presents Paper on New Method of Malware Detection
- UMD Researchers Present Paper on Innovative Work for Ensuring Integrity in Cloud-Hosted Databases
- MC2 Researcher Chosen as a DARPA Riser
- Papamanthou Receives $500K NSF Grant on Advanced Data Structures and Security
- UMD Researchers Awarded $1M from NIST to Work on Next-Generation Cryptography
- Katz Featured in Voting Security Story
- Katz Discusses Research on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies in Baltimore Sun Article
- MC2 Camps Inspire Students to Join Cybersecurity Fields
- Papamanthou Receives Google Research Award
- Mazurek, Foster Receive Google Research Award
- MC2 Researchers Develop New Method to Allow Users to Avoid Sending Data Through Undesired Regions
- MC2 Researcher Weighs In On Public Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities
- Research Paper by Dumitras on Twitter Behavior to be Presented at USENIX Security Symposium
2014-2015 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2015
- Mazurek Discusses Password Problems with IMI TechTalk
- First Run of Cybersecurity MOOCs Taught by MC2 Faculty Finishes with a Flourish
- MC2 Researchers Receive $1.2M NSF Grant for Verifiable Computation
- Katz Gives Keynote Address at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
- Shilton Receives NSF CAREER Award
- MC2 Hosts Password Safety Activity at Maryland Day 2015
- Research Paper by Dumitras Presented at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- Dumitras Receives NSF Award to Study Software Update Vulnerabilities
- UMD Researchers Awarded $3.4M DARPA Grant to Develop Automated Software-Analysis Tools
- Dachman-Soled Receives Junior Faculty Enhancement ORAU Award
- Papamanthou Working to Make Navigating Email Encryption Easier
- ACES Competition Team Places Second at Regionals
- Shi Weighs in on Maintaining Cloud Security in MIT News
- MC2 Doctoral Student Presents Research at HotSoS
- MC2 Researchers Benefit from Amazon Award
- Forensic Technology by Wu is Invention of the Year Finalist
- MC2 Director Katz Discusses Heartbleed Bug in Christian Science Monitor Article
- Gordon to Speak at International Cybersecurity Conference
- Mazurek, Golbeck Receive ADVANCE Seed Grant
- Qu Organizes Workshop on Emerging Cyber War-Fighting Technologies
- Michael Hicks Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
- Hicks, Shi Win Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2015
- Srivastava, Qu Participate in Kick-Off for MURI Award
- MC2 Hosts Spring Cybersecurity and Cybersafety Workshop for Girls
- Dachman-Soled Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study "Non-Black-Box" Cryptography
- Katz Quoted on Clinton E-Mails and Privacy/Security of Wearable Technologies
- Shi Launches First Lab to Study Smart Contracts
- MC2 Student Places Third in IBM Contest
- MC2 Doctoral Student Spreads His Wealth of Bitcoin Knowledge
- MC2 Director Katz Featured on Federal News Radio
- Visiting Research Scientist in MC2 Brings New Ideas, Collaborations
- Maimon Publishes Paper Studying Behavior of Hackers
- Hicks Co-Organizes Seminar on Programming Languages and Cryptography
- UMD Workshop Introduces 4th and 5th Graders to Cybersecurity
- MC2 Director Katz Receives Humboldt Research Award
- Mazurek joins MC2
- University of Maryland hosts girls' cybersecurity career workshop
- Levin, Dumitras Investigating Fixes for Heartbleed Bug
- Shi's Encryption Work Highlighted in MIT Technology Review
- UMD Hosts 4th Cybersecurity and Cybersafety Workshop for Girls
- MC2, ACES Program Featured in Gazette Article About Cybersecurity
- Winning Teams Announced in Build It, Break It, Fix It Contest
- Largest Gift in University History Set to Transform Computer Science Education
- Maimon, Katz Receive Joint NSF Award
- MC2 Director Katz Featured in Hearst News Story on Russian Hackers
- Online Cyber Contest Challenges Students
- NSA Highlights Papers by MC2 Researchers
- Summer Camps Cultivate Students’ Cybersecurity Skills
2013-2014 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2014
- Cybersecurity Is All a Game for Two ACES Students??
- Chetty Receives NSF Award
- Hicks Featured on Security Podcast
- MC2 Cybersecurity Education Featured in U.S. News and World Report
- MC2 Welcomes Undergraduates For Nine-Week Research Experience
- Annual Cyber Symposium Brings Large Crowd, Interesting Discussion
- UMD Receives $4.5M for Science of Security "Lablet"
- MC2 Director Katz Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee on Investing in Cybersecurity
- MC2 Researchers Awarded MURI for Work on Hardware Security
- Shi, Papamanthou Win Invention of the Year Award
- Families Create Powerful Passwords at Maryland Day 2014
- International Visitors Discuss Best Practices in Cybersecurity, Women in Computing
- Jan Plane Wins Women in Technology Leadership Award
- ACES Cybersecurity Honors Program Featured on Front Page of WSJ
- Engineering Greener Pastures
- MC2 Director, Faculty Named to President’s Task Force on Cybersecurity
- ACES Director and Student Named to President's Task Force
- MC2, ManTech Partner on Cybersecurity Scholarships
- UMD Hosts 3rd Cybersecurity and Cybersafety Workshop for Girls
- Elaine Shi Awarded 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship
- UMD to Offer New MOOCs Multi-Course Specialization in Cybersecurity
- Cyberjutsu Girls Academy to be held at UMD
- Local Middle School Girls Receive Hands-On Exposure to Cybersecurity
- Middle School Girls and Community Members Learn about MC2 Education Programs at Expo
- Katz Named Director of Maryland Cybersecurity Center
- UMD Hosts 2nd Cybersecurity and Cybersafety Workshop for Girls
- UMD and Northrop Grumman Launch ACES, Nation's First Cybersecurity Honors Program
- Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
- UMD, Parsons Partner to Help Produce Future Cybersecurity Professionals
- ManTech-MC2 Cybersecurity Scholars Program
- REU Cybersecurity Scholars: Summer 2013
- Tudor Awarded Honorable Mention for Best Paper
- Three Professors Focused on Cybersecurity Join ECE
2012-2013 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2013
- CyberSTEM Camp Inspires Middle School Girls
- UMD Cybersecurity Center Corporate Partner News
- Camp Prepares Teens for Cybersecurity Careers
- MC2 Director Talks Small Business Cybersecurity in U.S. News Article
- Maryland Cybersecurity Center Welcomes 6 Undergraduate Research Students
- Experts Say More Research Needed to Foil Cyber Criminals
- Maryland Professors Weigh Up Cyber Risks
- Welcome to Dr. Jandelyn Plane, New Associate Director of ACES
- Internet Safety at Maryland Day
- Cyber Symposium Tackles Policy, Tech, Privacy & More - May 14-15
- Undergraduate Cybersecurity Network Launched to Address the Nation?s Growing Need for Cybersecurity Talent
- Final Seminar of the Spring Google and UMD Cybersecurity Series
- Researchers Expose the Human Side of Cybercrime
- UMD Cybersecurity Student Team Advances to Mid-Atlantic CCDC Finals
- Cyber Safety Workshop Empowers Middle School Girls
- Dr. Ari Juels Headlines Google Seminar Series
- UMD and ManTech Announce Partnership for Advanced Cybersecurity Research
- Spring 2013 Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series Opens With Michael Franz
- Erlingsson Closes Google-UMD Cybersecurity Fall 2012 Seminars
- Middle Schools Girls Learn about Cybersecurity from the Professionals at UMD
- UMD Faculty Secure DHS Funding for Cybersecurity Economics Research
- ECE Co-sponsors Workshop on Vehicular Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Club Team Wins First Prize
- Associate Professor Michel Cukier Named Inaugural Director of ACES
- Cybersecurity Club Teams Qualify for Finals of MDC3 Competition!
- Clark School #14 in World Research Ranking
- Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series to Feature Kevin Mandia and Wenke Lee
- Srivastava is PI for NSF hardware security grant
2011-2012 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2012
- UMD and Sourcefire Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- Unique Program To Educate Next Generation of U.S. Cybersecurity Leaders
- Painter to Close Google-UMD Cybersecurity Seminar Series
- UMD and CyberPoint Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- MPowering the State
- Alumnus Zhao Granted Tenure at University of Alberta
- 2012 Google Seminar Series Opens with Two Leaders
- UMD and SuprTEK Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- UMD and MAR Incorporated Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- UMD and Lunarline Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- Cukier, Maimon featured on SC Magazine podcast
- UMD and Future Skies Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
- Clark School Creates Master's in Cybersecurity Engineering Targeted at High-Tech Professionals
- Tether to Speak at Commencement
- Researchers Explore How Cyber-Attackers Think Like Regular Crooks
- ter.ps URL Shortener Now Available
- Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series to Feature Cox of SAIC, Maughan of DHS
- Katz to lead $1.5M cooperative agreement
- Dr. Michael Hicks to Lead Maryland Cybersecurity Center as Director
- Baras, Austin, Yang Secure $1M Agreement with NIST
- Gordon Delivers Keynote at Federal Cybersecurity Conference
- Cybersecurity Club Qualifies for Finals of MDC3 Competition!
- Gordon, Loeb Spotlight Optimal Level of IT Investment
- Online information needs better protection
- Univ. and Senator Cardin Work to Better Cybersecurity
- University of Maryland and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Announce Partnership in Cybersecurity
- Researchers Earn NSF Grant for Practical Secure Two-Party Computation
- Cukier Featured in Huffington Post Article on Cybersecurity
- Savage to Kick Off Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series, Sept. 1
2010-2011 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2011
- Cukier Invited to Deliver Keynote Address at WRAITS 2011
- Liu, Lin and Zhao Co-Author New Book Analyzing Human Interaction with Social Media
- GameSec 2011 Call for Papers Extended
- Baras Gives Invited Plenary Talk at IEEE-CYBER 2011
- ECE Chair O'Shea Named UMD VP for Research
- Google and UMD Cybersecurity Seminar to Feature Ari Schwartz of NIST
- UMD To Offer Cyber Camp for High School Students This Summer
- Congressman Ruppersberger to Speak at Cybersecurity Conference
- Google and UMD Cybersecurity Seminar to Feature Sourcefire's Martin Roesch
- ECE Inventors Honored at UMD Invention of the Year Award for Wireless Security Technology
- ?It?s Not Too Late?: Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series Opens With Vint Cerf
- Baras Co-Editor of New Book, "Decision and Game Theory for Security"
- Google Sponsors New Cybersecurity Seminar Series at the University of Maryland
- UMD Wins CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
- UM Helps Protect Nuclear Plants from Cyber Attacks
- John Baras, Vladimir Ivanov interviewed for TV segment on RFID theft
- Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources Awarded to Melissa Vice
- Cybersecurity Scholars Program To Be Offered This Summer
- UMD, Tenable Announce Cybersecurity Partnership
- D.C. Area Tops in Job Growth
- UMD Cybersecurity Club Moves On To CCDC Regional Finals
- State Ranked Highly in Technology and Science Index
- UM Rises Again Among Best Values
- New Federal Legislation and WikiLeaks Attacks Frame UMD Cybersecurity Center Launch
- UMD Cybersecurity Center Launch Event Set for Dec. 9
- Cybersecurity: How much is too much?
- Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources
- Northrop joins other companies in teaming up with universities on cybersecurity research
- Cyber Criminals Are People, Too
- Baras is co-PI on NSF cyber-physical systems award
- Producing New Innovations and Innovators
- SAIC and the University of Maryland Link Cybersecurity Centers
- Cybersecurity Education Goes Holistic
- Press Release: New UMD Cybersecurity Center Aims at Public-Private Partnerships
- DoD, DHS to align cybersecurity capabilities
- New Cybersecurity Lab Opens in Columbia, MD
- U.S. Launches Three-Day 'Cyber Storm' Response Test
- Was Stuxnet built to attack Iran's nuclear program?
2009-2010 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2010
2008-2009 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2009
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